Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Gero Friesecke

German mathematicianborn 1964

Supervised 10 doctoral students at Technische Universität München and Universität Potsdam; Wikidata names John M. Ball as doctoral advisor and lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 4 other registers.

Gero Friesecke, pictured

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students10

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 13 people: 10 cited by thesis records, 3 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

Sat beside the lineage10

referee, not advisor