1. Academic Genealogy: <br>

Renato M. Capocelli (Thesis Advisor)
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Eduardo M. Caianiello
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Robert Marshak 
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Hans Bethe
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Arnold Sommerfeld
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Ferdinand von Lindemann
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Felix Klein
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Julius Plucker 
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Christian Ludwig Gerling 
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Carl Friedrich Gauss  
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Johann Friedrich Pfaff 
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Abraham Gotthelf Kastner 
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Christian August Hausen  
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J. C. Wichmannshausen   
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Otto Mencke            
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Jakob Thomasius       
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Friedrich Leibniz (1597-1652)
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2. Erdos Number: 2
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    P. Erdos -- D. Stinson -- U.V
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    P. Erdos -- C. Colbourn  -- U.V
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    P. Erdos -- P. Hell -- U.V

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3. h-index: 40 (according to Google Scholar) 

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4. I am coauthor of the  paper "Perfectly-secure key distribution for dynamic conferences",
ranked 65 in the world-wide top-cited papers from 1982 to 2021, in the area of Crypto 
(see <a href="https://www.sec.cs.tu-bs.de/~konrieck/topnotch/crypto_papers.html">here</a>)