Alexandre Maksoud

Since September 2022 I work as a postdoc under the supervision of Fabian Januszewski at Paderborn University. I am also involved in the CRC Integral Structures and Representation Theory between the universities of Paderborn and Bielefeld. 

Previously, I was postdoc at the University of Luxembourg in the team of Gabor Wiese. Prior to that, I was a student at the École normale supérieure de Cachan and I recieved my PhD degree from the University of Lille, under the supervision of Mladen Dimitrov. 

My area of research is Number Theory. More specifically, I am interested in Iwasawa Theory, which aims at giving an arithmetic interpretation of L-functions and of their p-adic analogues. In my PhD thesis I have formulated and studied a main conjecture for classical weight one modular forms, using tools from both Iwasawa theory of number fields and p-adic variation of (automorphic) motives. Building on these ideas, I proposed a general Iwasawa-theoretic framework describing special values of Artin L-functions. Lately, I am looking at applications of p-adic transcendence theory to the non-vanishing of p-adic regulators and L-invariants. I also work on adjoint p-adic L-functions of families of modular forms.