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Diederik Aerts

Belgian theoretical physicistborn 1953

Wikidata names Constantin Piron and Jean Reignier as doctoral advisors, lists 5 doctoral students, and lists 3 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 10 other registers.

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Diederik Aerts, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

How to read the marksstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata5

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught3

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

    Bob Coecke

    born 1968
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Sonja Smets

    born 1971
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Karin Verelst

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 5 people: 5 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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