Alex Sherman

Dr Alex Sherman is a Lecturer at UNSW Sydney in the School of Mathematics & Statistics. He previously held postdoctoral positions at the University of Sydney with Kevin Coulembier and at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev with Inna Entova-Aizenbud. His research focuses on representation theory and supergeometry, with applications to Lie superalgebras, modular representation theory, and tensor categories. He has published extensively on topics such as ghost distributions, Duflo-Serganova functors, and the geometry of spherical supervarieties.

• Email: alex.sherman@unsw.edu.au
• Location: Room 4111, The Red Centre, UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052

In 2025, he will lecture the Linear Algebra stream of MATH1241. He organizes the UNSW Pure Maths Seminar and Algebra Seminar, and has co-organized courses on Kazhdan-Lusztig equivalences and tensor categories.