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Working on a PhD project creates a strong bond between thestudent and their advisor(s), resulting in a relationship that often lasts to end of their lives.
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Holger's PhD descendants

Sam Bayless (PhD 2017) - co-advised with Alan Hu at UBC

Lin Xu (PhD 2014) - co-advised with Kevin Leyton-Brown at UBC
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Marius Lindauer (PhD 2014) - co-advised with Torsten Schaub at Universität Potsdam
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Nima Aghaeepour (PhD 2012) - co-advised with Ryan Brinkman at the BC Cancer Research Centre
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Dave Tompkins (PhD 2010; Postdoc 2010-2011)
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Frank Hutter (PhD 2009; Postdoc 2009-2011) - co-advised with Kevin Leyton-Brown at UBC
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Mirela Andronescu (PhD 2008) - co-advised with Anne Condon at UBC
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Rosalía Aguirre-Hernández (PhD 2007) - co-advised with Anne Condon at UBC
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Dan Tulpan (PhD 2006) - co-advised with Anne Condon at UBC
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Sanja Rogic (PhD 2006) - co-advised with Alan Mackworth and Francis Ouellette at UBC
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Alena Shmygelska (PhD 2006)
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Jürgen Kilian (PhD 2004) - co-advised with Hermann K.G. Walter, TU Darmstadt
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In all co-advisory relationships, Holger was either a principal advisor or similarly involved in the work and intellectual development of the candidate.

Holger's PhD brothers and sisters

Wolfgang Bibel, Holger's PhD advisor, advised 40 PhD candidates and postdocs over his long and extraordinarily successful career. Holger interacted closely with several of them, including Antje Strohmaier, Steffen Hölldobler, Thomas Stützle, Torsten Schaub, as well as Mauro Birattari, Marco Chiarandini, Uwe Egly, Gerd Große, Christoph Herrmann, Daniel Korn, Christoph Kreitz, Jens Otten, Luis Paquete, Stephan Schmitt, and Michael Thielscher.

Holger's line of PhD ancestors

Leonhard Wolfgang Bibel (PhD 1968, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
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Kurt Schütte (PhD 1934, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
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David Hilbert (PhD 1885, Universität Königsberg)
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Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann (PhD 1873, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
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Christian Felix Klein (PhD 1868, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
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Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz (PhD 1853, Universität Berlin)
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Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (PhD 1827, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
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Siméon Denis Poisson (PhD 1800, École Polytechnique Paris)
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Joseph-Louis Lagrange (no degree)
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Leonhard Euler (PhD 1726, Universität Basel)
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Johann Bernoulli (Medicinae Dr. 1694, Universität Basel)
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Jacob Bernoulli (Dr. hab. Sci. 1684, Universität Basel)
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Nicolas Malebranche (PhD 1672)
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Dr. phil. 1666, Universität Leipzig)
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Source: Mathematics Genealogy Project; several of the earlier advisory relationships are somewhat informal. In some cases, the person listed had more than one advisor, in which case only one advisor is shown.