Academic Ancestry

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Chris Holmes

British mathematician

Supervised 18 doctoral students at University of Oxford and Oxford University, UK between 2009 and 2025; Wikidata names Adrian Smith and Bani K Mallick as doctoral advisors and lists 14 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 4 other registers.

Chris Holmes, pictured

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

Students18

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata14

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 36 people: 18 cited by thesis records, 18 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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