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Beat Signer

Swiss computer scientist and professor at Vrije Universiteit Brusselborn 1973

Wikidata names Moira C. Norrie as doctoral advisor and lists 19 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Moira C. Norrie

Students on Wikidata19

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Maxim Van de Wynckel
born 1995
stated by Wikidata
Ahmed A.O. Tayeh
stated by Wikidata
Audrey Sanctorum
stated by Wikidata
Bingyan Li
stated by Wikidata
Ekene Attoh
stated by Wikidata
Ingela Rossing
stated by Wikidata
Isaac Valadez
stated by Wikidata
Jan Boonants
stated by Wikidata
Jan Maushagen
stated by Wikidata
Lode Hoste
stated by Wikidata
Mehdi Hatamian
stated by Wikidata
Piet Van Der Paelt
stated by Wikidata
Qi Xu
stated by Wikidata
Reinout Roels
stated by Wikidata
Renny Lindberg
stated by Wikidata
Sandra Trullemans
stated by Wikidata
Tunday Akintan
stated by Wikidata
Xuyao Zhang
stated by Wikidata
Yoshi Malaise

Teachers and mentors9

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
Emo Welzl
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Felicitas Pauss
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Hans-Jörg Schek
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Jürg Gutknecht
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Markus Gross
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Moira C. Norrie
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Niklaus Wirth
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Peter Widmayer
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Ueli Maurer

Taught27

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
Adriana Ispas
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Ahmed Abdullah
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Alexandre de Spindler
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Alvin Steven Wijaya
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Anisha Sachdeva
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Arno De Witte
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Arun Sojan Kudakacheril
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Ayrton Vercruysse
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Benjamin Vermunicht
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Brecht De Rooms
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Bruno Dumas
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Christophe Vermeylen
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Corsin Decurtins
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Elena Zambon
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Eleni Ilkou
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Evan Cole
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Herman Hofstetter
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Lars Van Holsbeeke
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
María Solórzano
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Michael Grossniklaus
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Nadir Weibel
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Paul Mestereaga
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Payam Ebrahimi
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Peter Geissbuehler
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Timothy Curtin
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Ueli Kurmann
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Yves Baeten

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.

1 step up
stated by WikidataMoira C. Norrie
2 steps up
stated by WikidataDavid John Harper
3 steps up
stated by WikidataC. J. van Rijsbergen
4 steps up
stated by WikidataJohn Kenneth Montague Moody

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 19 people: 19 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

stated by Wikidata
Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces
doctoral thesis, stated by Wikidata

Education and career7

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

1999 to 2005
ETH Zurich
worked
2005 to 2007
ETH Zurich
worked
2007 to 2009
ETH Zurich
worked
from 2009
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
worked
undated
ETH Zurich
studied
undated
Old Kantonsschule (Albert Einstein House)
studied
undated
Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich
studied

At a glance

known as: computer scientist, professor, university teacher, engineer, inventor, wildlife photographer
fields: computer science, human–computer interaction, information science, information technology
degrees: Doctor of Philosophy, 2005, Master of Science, 1999, Bachelor of Science, 1996
awards: Best Paper Award, honorable mention, Best Paper Award, Best Paper Award, Best Paper Award
member of: Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE Computer Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, SIGCHI, Web & Information Systems Engineering (WISE) Lab
notable works: Pen-based Interaction, Towards Cross-Media Information Spaces and Architectures, Towards a Framework for Dynamic Data Physicalisation, Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces, What is Wrong with Digital Documents? A Conceptual Model for Structural Cross-Media Content Composition and Reuse, Interactive Paper as a Mobile Client for a Multi-Channel Web Information System, As We May Link: A General Metamodel for Hypermedia Systems, PaperPoint: A Paper-based Presentation and Interactive Paper Prototyping Tool, eSPACE: Leveraging Theoretical Foundations for the End-User Development of Cross-Device and IoT Applications, Back to the Future: Bringing Original Hypermedia and Cross-Media Concepts to Modern Desktop Environments, Indoor Positioning Using the OpenHPS Framework, A Technology-enhanced Smart Learning Environment Based on the Combination of Knowledge Graphs and Learning Paths, A Conceptual Framework and Content Model for Next Generation Presentation Solutions, Cross-Media Document Linking and Navigation, Crossing Spaces: Towards Cross-Media Personal Information Management User Interfaces, The Context Modelling Toolkit: A Unified Multi-layered Context Modelling Approach, SpeeG2: A Speech- and Gesture-based Interface for Efficient Controller-free Text Entry, Mudra: A Unified Multimodal Interaction Framework, Towards a Unifying and Accessible Data Perceptualisation Design Theory

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere10

identity

stated by WikidataWikidataQ56928983
stated by WikidataORCID0000-0001-9916-0837
stated by WikidataVIAF80965336
stated by WikidataGND136658024
stated by WikidataISNI0000000353095456

papers

stated by WikidataOpenAlexA5010074519
stated by WikidataGoogle Scholarv16OAn78FFUJ
stated by WikidataDBLP05/2783
stated by WikidataScopus8227195300
stated by WikidataSemantic Scholar1725701

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  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Beat Signer: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q56928983},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Beat Signer: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q56928983