Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Christian Genest

Canadian mathematicianborn 1957

Supervised 4 doctoral students and 11 master's students at McGill University between 2013 and 2025; Wikidata names James V. Zidek as doctoral advisor and lists 8 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

Christian Genest, pictured

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

Students15

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata8

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 12 people: 4 cited by thesis records, 8 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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