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Otmar Scherzer

Austrian mathematicianborn 1964

Wikidata names Heinz Engl as doctoral advisor, lists 9 doctoral students, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 6 other registers.

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Otmar Scherzer, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata9

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught2

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Klaus Frick

    born 1980
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Alexander Seidel

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 19 people: 19 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex231

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Markus Haltmeier

    35 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Markus Grasmair

    27 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Peter Elbau

    21 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Florian Faucher

    18 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Clemens Kirisits

    18 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Frank Lenzen

    17 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Harald Grossauer

    13 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Maarten V. de Hoop

    12 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Barbara Kaltenbacher

    11 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Christiane Pöschl

    10 shared works

OpenAlex lists 221 more people who share a work with them.