# Syméon Bozapalides
**Wikidata**: [Q102293528](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102293528)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/symeon-bozapalides

## Summary
Syméon Bozapalides (also spelled Symeon Bozapalidis) is a male computer scientist born in 1948. He studied at the University of Paris and was a student of mathematician Charles Ehresmann; he also supervised doctoral work by Dimitrios Varsamis.

## Biography
- Born: 1948 (place not provided)
- Education: University of Paris
- Known for: Work as a computer scientist; academic lineage linking Charles Ehresmann (advisor) and Dimitrios Varsamis (doctoral student)
- Field(s): Computer science

## Contributions
The provided sources identify Syméon Bozapalides as a computer scientist with formal academic connections documented in scholarly authority records. He was educated at the University of Paris and is listed as a student of Charles Ehresmann. He is also recorded as the doctoral supervisor of Dimitrios Varsamis (Ph.D., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2012).  

Beyond these academic-relationship facts, the source material primarily supplies authority-control and bibliographic identifiers that support attribution and disambiguation of his scholarly output across major research and library systems. These include entries in MathSciNet (MR author ID 210730), DBLP (author ID 69/1140), Scopus (author ID 6602900470), zbMATH (author profile bozapalides.symeon), ACM Digital Library (author ID 81100019475), and multiple national library authority files (e.g., VIAF 28278835; Library of Congress authority ID nb2008001399). The sources do not provide titles, years, or descriptions of specific publications, projects, patents, or software, so no further concrete works can be listed here.

## FAQs
### Q: Who is Syméon Bozapalides?
A: He is a computer scientist born in 1948. He studied at the University of Paris, was a student of Charles Ehresmann, and supervised doctoral work by Dimitrios Varsamis.

### Q: What is Syméon Bozapalides’s connection to Charles Ehresmann?
A: The sources list Charles Ehresmann as Bozapalides’s academic advisor/teacher (“student of”). No additional details about the period or specific program are provided.

### Q: Did Syméon Bozapalides supervise any Ph.D. students?
A: Yes. The sources list Dimitrios Varsamis as his doctoral student (Varsamis earned a Ph.D. from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2012).

### Q: Where can I find Syméon Bozapalides’s author records?
A: He has authority and author identifiers in systems including VIAF (28278835), ISNI (0000000043296877), GND (1089561741), Library of Congress (nb2008001399), DBLP (69/1140), Scopus (6602900470), MathSciNet (210730), and zbMATH (bozapalides.symeon).

## Why They Matter
Within the limits of the provided material, Syméon Bozapalides’s significance is most clearly evidenced through two durable forms of impact: academic lineage and persistent scholarly attribution. His documented relationship as a student of Charles Ehresmann places him in a recognized intellectual genealogy, and his role as doctoral supervisor to Dimitrios Varsamis shows direct influence on subsequent researchers (including a Ph.D. completed in 2012 at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).  

In addition, the breadth of authority-control coverage—spanning international library identifiers (VIAF, ISNI, GND, IdRef, NUKAT, Library of Congress) and research indexing systems (DBLP, Scopus, MathSciNet, zbMATH, ACM Digital Library)—indicates that his work is sufficiently established to require consistent disambiguation across catalogs and databases. This matters because it enables reliable citation, discovery, and aggregation of his publications and related records across platforms. The sources do not specify particular research results, but they do show that his scholarly identity is widely tracked and integrated into major academic infrastructures.

## Notable For
- Computer scientist (occupation listed in the sources).
- Educated at the University of Paris.
- Listed as a student of Charles Ehresmann.
- Listed as doctoral supervisor of Dimitrios Varsamis (Ph.D., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2012).
- Widely indexed via authority and author identifiers (e.g., VIAF 28278835; ISNI 0000000043296877; MathSciNet author ID 210730; DBLP author ID 69/1140; Scopus author ID 6602900470).

## Body
### Identity and Name Variants
- Name: Syméon Bozapalides
- Alias/variant spelling: Symeon Bozapalidis
- Sex or gender: male
- Instance of: human
- Occupation: computer scientist

### Birth
- Birth year: 1948  
- Birthplace: not provided in the source material

### Education and Academic Lineage
- Educated at: University of Paris
- Student of: Charles Ehresmann
- Doctoral student supervised: Dimitrios Varsamis (Ph.D., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2012)

### Indexing, Authority Control, and Research Identifiers
- VIAF ID: 28278835
- ISNI: 0000000043296877
- GND ID: 1089561741
- IdRef ID: 263482979
- NUKAT ID: n2013007591
- Library of Congress authority ID: nb2008001399
- WorldCat Entities ID: E39PCjyTKkxJFPkkkdMHCrYByd
- MathSciNet (MR) author ID: 210730
- zbMATH author ID: bozapalides.symeon
- DBLP author ID: 69/1140
- Scopus author ID: 6602900470
- ACM Digital Library author ID: 81100019475
- Dimensions author IDs: 011177136173.32; 014754467245.05
- National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007442302205171
- Canadiana Name Authority ID: ncf11477409
- Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 338643974
- Yale LUX ID: person/57206086-7ed9-4b5d-a244-e8cc31d4845c

### Curation Notes
- Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics

## References

1. IdRef
2. Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. Virtual International Authority File