Biography:Alexey Pokrovskiy
Alexey Pokrovskiy | |
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge London School of Economics |
| Awards | European Prize in Combinatorics (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University College London |
| Doctoral advisors | Jan 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] He is known for his work in extremal and probabilistic combinatorics, including a proof of Ringel’s conjecture with Richard Montgomery and Benny Sudakov for large graphs, as covered by Quanta magazine.[3] In 2019, he and Montgomery received the European Prize in Combinatorics.[4][5]
Education and career
Pokrovskiy studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge, receiving a BA in 2008 and an MMath with distinction in 2009. He completed a PhD in mathematics at the London School of Economics in 2013 under the supervision of Jan van den Heuvel and Jozef Skokan.[6]
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.[7][8]
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.[9][10] 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.[11][12]
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".[13]
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 (3): 779–867. doi:10.1007/s00222-025-01328-x. Bibcode: 2025InMat.240..779M.
External links
- Official website
- Entry at ORCID
- Alexey Pokrovskiy at University College London
References
- ↑ "Alexey Pokrovskiy". University College London. https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/78145-alexey-pokrovskiy.
- ↑ "Academic and Lecturing Staff". University College London. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/maths/people/academic-and-lecturing-staff.
- ↑ Hartnett, Kevin (2020-02-19). "Rainbow Proof Shows Graphs Have Uniform Parts" (in en). https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-prove-ringels-graph-theory-conjecture-20200219/.
- ↑ "BEI Research Year in Review | Birkbeck Research Blog". https://research.blogs.bbk.ac.uk/2020/01/07/bei-research-year-in-review/.
- ↑ "Birmingham Researcher Receives European Prize in Combinatorics" (in en). https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/university/colleges/eps/news/2019/10/researcher-receives-prize-combinatorics.aspx.
- ↑ Pokrovskiy, Alexey (2013-05). Graph powers, partitions, and other extremal problems (doctoral thesis). London School of Economics and Political Science.
{{cite thesis}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ↑ Pokrovskiy, Alexey. "Curriculum vitae". https://alexeypokrovskiy.com/cv.pdf.
- ↑ Pokrovskiy 2018.
- ↑ Bucić et al. 2020.
- ↑ Montgomery, Pokrovskiy & Sudakov 2021.
- ↑ Müyesser & Pokrovskiy 2025.
- ↑ "Prestigious accolades and honours". Birkbeck International Digest 2019-2020 (Birkbeck, University of London): 26–30. https://www.bbk.ac.uk/documents/international-digest-2019-20.pdf. Retrieved 17 May 2026.
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