Associate Professor

Ekaterina Fokina

I am an Associate Professor at the Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, TU Wien.

Research Interests

My primary research interests lie in the field of computable structure theory. I focus on investigating the effective properties of mathematical structures and the relations between them.

Current Research

FWF Project P 36781: "Classifying structures by learning"
(Principal Investigator, 2024 – Ongoing)

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Selected Publications

  • 2025 E. Fokina and S. Lempp. Syntactic characterization of learnability of structures with mind changes. In: Information and Computation (2025).
  • 2024 E. Fokina and S. Terwijn. Computable structure theory of partial combinatory algebras⋆. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (2024)Patey, L.L. (ed.), Twenty Years of Theoretical and Practical Synergies: 20th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2024, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 8–12, 2024, Proceedings, pp. 265-276.
  • 2014 E. Fokina, V. Harizanov, and A. Melnikov. Computable model theory. In: Turing's Legacy: Developments from Turing's Ideas in Logic, Ed. R. Downey, Cambridge University Press, Lecture Notes in Logic 42 (2014), 124-194.
  • 2010 E. Fokina, I. Kalimullin, and R. Miller. Degrees of computability of structures. In: Computability in Context: Computation and Logic in the Real World, Imperial College Press 2011, 93-133.

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Teaching

At TU Wien, I teach courses on mathematical logic, computability theory, discrete mathematics, and theoretical computer science. Current course details and materials are available on TISS.

Previously, I was a researcher and lecturer at Novosibirsk State University, where I taught Theory of Algorithms and Mathematical Logic I & II.

Latest News

  • Aug 3–8, 2026 CoCoGEMS @ TU Workshop supporting gender minorities in computability and complexity.
  • 2026 Mentoring two new FWF ESPRIT projects led by Liling Ko and Vittorio Cipriani.