Ahmed Abbes

Ahmed Abbes (born 24 May 1970) is a Tunisian-French mathematician and a Director of research at the 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. Abbes received a bronze medal in 1988 and a silver medal in 1989 at the International Mathematical Olympiad while representing Tunisia. Abbes has both French and Tunisian citizenship. At Paris-Sud, Michel Raynaud was one of his mentors.

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

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 is a corresponding member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts.