Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Peter Widmayer

born 1953

Supervised 49 doctoral students at ETH Zurich between 1998 and 2019; Wikidata names Thomas Ottmann as doctoral advisor, lists 11 doctoral students, and lists 3 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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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.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlex

Students49

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata11

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

    Roger Wattenhofer

    born 1969
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Beat Signer

    born 1973
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Andreas Emil Feldmann

    born 1982

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 143 people: 125 cited by thesis records, 19 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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