Ahmed Abbes

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

In 2005, Abbes was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal. He is a corresponding member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts.

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.

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. At Paris-Sud, Michel Raynaud was one of his mentors. Abbes received his habilitation in 2003.

Ahmed Abbes (born 24 May 1970) is a Tunisian-French mathematician and a Director of Research [fr] at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS). He is known for his work in arithmetic geometry.

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.