Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Simon Myers

Professor of Mathematical Genomicsborn 1977

Supervised 15 doctoral students at University of Oxford and Oxford University, UK between 2013 and 2024; Wikidata names Robert Griffiths as doctoral advisor, lists 1 doctoral student, and names David Altshuler and Peter Donnelly as teachers. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 3 other registers.

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 Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors2

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

The line above and below3 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 17 people: 16 cited by thesis records, 1 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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