Biography:Alexey Pokrovskiy

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Alexey Pokrovskiy
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
London School of Economics
AwardsEuropean Prize in Combinatorics (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity College London
Doctoral advisorsJan van den Heuvel
Jozef Skokan

Alexey Pokrovskiy is a mathematician specialising in combinatorics and graph theory. He is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at University College London.[1][2]

Education and career

Pokrovskiy was a postdoctoral researcher at the Free University of Berlin from 2013 to 2015 and at ETH Zurich from 2015 to 2018. He was then a lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London from 2018 to 2020, before joining University College London in 2020.[3][4]

Research

Pokrovskiy's work is in discrete mathematics, especially extremal and probabilistic combinatorics. His notable results include an approximate version of the Aharoni-Berger conjecture and his work with Matija Bucić, Matthew Kwan and Benny Sudakov on Rota's basis conjecture.[5][6] His other significant works include a proof with Richard Montgomery and Benny Sudakov of Ringel's conjecture for large graphs and his work with Alp Müyesser giving a random version of the Hall–Paige conjecture.[7][8]

Awards and honours

In 2019, Pokrovskiy shared the European Prize in Combinatorics with Richard Montgomery. The prize announcement cited their "deep contributions to extremal and probabilistic combinatorics".[9]

Selected publications

  • Pokrovskiy, Alexey (2015). "A linear bound on the Manickam–Miklós–Singhi conjecture". Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A 133: 280–306. doi:10.1016/j.jcta.2015.01.007. 
  • Pokrovskiy, Alexey (2018). "An approximate version of a conjecture of Aharoni and Berger". Advances in Mathematics 333: 1197–1241. doi:10.1016/j.aim.2018.05.036. 
  • Bucić, Matija; Kwan, Matthew; Pokrovskiy, Alexey; Sudakov, Benny (2020). "Halfway to Rota's Basis Conjecture". International Mathematics Research Notices 2020 (21): 8007–8026. doi:10.1093/imrn/rnaa004. 
  • Montgomery, Richard; Pokrovskiy, Alexey; Sudakov, Benny (2021). "A proof of Ringel's conjecture". Geometric and Functional Analysis 31 (3): 663–720. doi:10.1007/s00039-021-00576-2. 
  • Müyesser, Alp; Pokrovskiy, Alexey (2025). "A random Hall-Paige conjecture". Inventiones Mathematicae 240: 779–867. doi:10.1007/s00222-025-01328-x. 

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