Facts: - residence: waterloo , on - known for: algebraic combinatorics - field: mathematics - doctoral advisor: derek alan holton - work institution: university of waterloo - name: chris d. godsil - alma mater: university of melbourne Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of chris godsil .
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christopher david godsil is a professor at the department of combinatorics and optimization in the faculty of mathematics at the university of waterloo .he wrote the popular textbook on algebraic graph theory , entitled '' algebraic graph theory '' , with gordon royle , his earlier textbook on algebraic combinatorics discussed distance-regular graphs and association schemes .he started the journal of algebraic combinatorics , and was the editor-in-chief of the electronic journal of combinatorics from 2004 to 2008 .he is also on the editorial board of the journal of combinatorial theory series b and combinatorica .he obtained his ph.d. in 1979 at the university of melbourne under the supervision of derek alan holton .he wrote a paper with paul erdos , so making his erdos number equal to 1 .