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Vincent Blondel

Belgian mathematician, rector of UCLouvainborn 1965

Supervised 14 doctoral students at UCLouvain in 2026; Wikidata names Michel Gevers as doctoral advisor and lists 8 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 7 other registers.

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Vincent Blondel, pictured

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Students14

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata8

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 48 people: 38 cited by thesis records, 10 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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