Asem Abdelraouf
Asem Abdelraouf
email: a[mylastname][at]kse.org.ua
I'm a Simons Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kyiv School of Economics, working with Maria Vlasenko.
I completed my PhD in June 2025 at SISSA, jointly with ICTP, under the supervision of Fernando Rodríguez Villegas.
My main research interests are in arithmetic and algebraic geometry.
Research
Preprints/Papers
Geometric realisation of hypergeometric local systems (with Giulia Gugiatti), 2026, preprint.
Hypergeometric motives from toric hypersurfaces, 2025, preprint.
In Progress
3. Excellent Frobenius lifts and supercongruences (with Maria Vlasenko).
4. Hypergeometric motives: unification (with Tyler Kelly and John Voight).
5. Stability of optimal extension inequalities over finite fields (with Cristian Gonzalez Riquelme and Miquel Saucedo).
Recent/Upcoming Research Visits
I will visit Sorbonne University for 3 weeks in March 2027.
I will visit the University of Sydney from 25 January to 25 February 2027.
I will visit the University of Edinburgh from 21 to 27 November 2026.
I will visit the University of Oxford from 18 to 21 November 2026.
I will visit Queen Mary University of London from 7 to 18 November 2026.
I spent 7 weeks at the ICTP in August and September 2026.
Recent/Upcoming Talks
TBD, at the University of Edinburgh, November 2026.
TBD, at the QMUL Algebra and Number Theory Seminar, November 2026.
Geometric realisation of hypergeometric local systems at ICTP, September 2026.
Mixed Hodge structures: an invitation (Basic Notions Seminar) at ICTP, August 2026.
Teaching
I am the lecturer for the course "Algebraic Number Theory" at KSE in Fall 2026.
I was the lecturer for the course "Groups, Rings, and Modules" at KSE in Spring 2026. (Lecture Notes)
I was the lecturer for the course "Numbers and Polynomials" at KSE in Fall 2025.
I was the teaching assistant for the course "Complex Analysis" at ICTP in Fall 2023.
I was the teaching assistant for the course "Complex Analysis" at ICTP in Fall 2022.
I was the teaching assistant for the course "Abstract Algebra" at ICTP in Fall 2021.