Alessio Figalli

Alessio Figalli (Italian: [aˈlɛssjo fiˈɡalli]; born 2 April 1984) is an Italian mathematician working primarily on the calculus of variations and partial differential equations.

He was awarded the Peccot-Vimont Prize and the Peccot Lectures in 2012, the EMS Prize in 2012, the Stampacchia Medal in 2015, the Feltrinelli Prize in 2017, and the Fields Medal in 2018. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2014. In 2016 he was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) grant, and in 2018 he received the Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Université Côte d'Azur. In 2019, he received the Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

Biography

Figalli received his master's degree from the University of Pisa in 2006 (as a student of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), and earned his doctorate in 2007 under the supervision of Luigi Ambrosio at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and Cédric Villani at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. In 2007, he was appointed Chargé de recherche at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and in 2008 he went to the École polytechnique as Professeur Hadamard.

In 2009, he moved to the University of Texas at Austin as an associate professor. He became full professor in 2011, and R. L. Moore Chair holder in 2013. Since 2016, he is a chaired professor at ETH Zürich.

Amongst his several recognitions, Figalli has won an EMS Prize in 2012, he has been awarded the Peccot-Vimont Prize 2011 and Cours Peccot 2012 of the Collège de France and has been appointed Nachdiplom Lecturer in 2014 at ETH Zürich. He has won the 2015 edition of the Stampacchia Medal, and the 2017 edition of the Feltrinelli Prize for mathematics.