Ahmed Abbes

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| nationality = Tunisian{{br}}French

| fields = Mathematics

| workplaces = {{ubl|French National Centre for Scientific Research|Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques|University of Rennes 1|Paris-Sud University}}

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| thesis_title = Théorie d'Arakelov et courbes modulaires

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| thesis_year = 1995

| doctoral_advisor = Lucien Szpiro

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Ahmed Abbes (born 24 May 1970) is a Tunisian-French mathematician and a {{ill|Director of Research|fr|Directeur de recherche au CNRS}} at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS). He is known for his work in arithmetic geometry.

Early life and education

Abbes was born on 24 May 1970 in Sfax, Tunisia.{{cite web |url=https://www.beitalhikma.tn/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Biography-Ahmed-Abbes.pdf |website=Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts |title=Ahmed Abbes Curriculum Vitae |accessdate=21 December 2020}} Abbes received a bronze medal in 1988 and a silver medal in 1989 at the International Mathematical Olympiad while representing Tunisia.{{cite web |url=http://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=1647 |title=Ahmed Abbes |website=International Mathematical Olympiad |accessdate=21 December 2020}} Abbes has both French and Tunisian citizenship.

Abbes studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1990 to 1994 and then received his doctorate from Paris-Sud University in 1995 under the supervision of Lucien Szpiro, with the thesis Théorie d'Arakelov et courbes modulaires on Arakelov theory and modular curves.{{MathGenealogy |id=139242}} At Paris-Sud, Michel Raynaud was one of his mentors. Abbes received his habilitation in 2003.

Career

Abbes was a post-doctoral researcher at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS) from 1995 to 1996 and was also a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in 1996. From 1996 to 2007, he was a Chargé de recherche at the CNRS at Paris-Sud University. From 2007 to 2011, he was a CNRS Director of Research (2nd class) at the University of Rennes 1. In 2011, he moved to the IHÉS where he was a CNRS Director of Research (2nd class) until 2013 and where he has been a CNRS Director of Research (1st class) since 2013.{{cite news |url=https://www.ihes.fr/professeur/ahmed-abbes/ |website=Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques |title=Ahmed Abbes, mathématicien |language=fr |accessdate=21 December 2020}}

Abbes was an editor for Astérisque from 2010 to 2018 and is the co-editor-in-chief of the Tunisian Journal of Mathematics.

Abbes is a Coordinator of the Tunisian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (TACBI). He is also a Secretary of the French Association of Academics for Respect for International Law in Palestine (AURDIP).{{cite news |url=https://www.leaders.com.tn/article/27409-une-nouvelle-forme-de-solidarite-mutuelle-entre-la-tunisie-et-la-palestine |first=Ahmed |last=Abbes |title=Ahmed Abbes: Une nouvelle forme de solidarité mutuelle entre la Tunisie et la Palestine |work={{ill|Leaders Tunisie|fr|Leaders (Tunisie)}} |language=fr |date=1 July 2019 |accessdate=21 December 2020}}{{cite news |url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/letter-tunisias-new-president-keep-fighting-palestinian-rights |first1=Ahmed |last1=Abbes |first2=Richard A. |last2=Falk |authorlink2=Richard A. Falk |title=A letter to Tunisia's new president: Keep fighting for Palestinian rights |work=Middle East Eye |date=22 November 2019 |accessdate=21 December 2020}}

Research

Abbes's research concerns the geometric and cohomological properties of sheaves on manifolds over perfect fields of positive characteristic and p-adic fields. He has worked on a p-adic Simpson correspondence and other topics in p-adic Hodge theory with Michel Gros.

Awards

In 2005, Abbes was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal.{{cite web|url=https://www.cnrs.fr/sites/default/files/download-file/2005bronze_web_0.pdf |website=French National Centre for Scientific Research |title=2005 Médailles de Bronze |language=fr |date=December 2005 |accessdate=21 December 2020}} He is a corresponding member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts.