Prof. Dr. Alessio Figalli

Prof. Dr.  Alessio Figalli

Prof. Dr. Alessio Figalli

Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics
Head of Institute for Mathematical Research

ETH Zürich

Professur für Mathematik

HG G 45.2

Rämistrasse 101

8092 Zürich

Switzerland

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Research area

Prof. Alessio Figalli works in the theory of optimal transportation, with particular emphasis on the regularity theory of optimal transport maps and its connections to Monge-Ampère equations. He is an expert of functional and geometric inequalities, where he proved many quantitative stability results. He also works on elliptic PDEs and free boundary problems. Furthermore, he has works on Hamilton-Jacobi equations and their connections to weak KAM theory, and he has given several contributions to the Di Perna-Lions' theory for transport equations with rough vector-fields. More recently, he started working in random matrix theory. 

Alessio Figalli has been Full Professor at the ETH Zurich since September 2016.

Prof. Alessio Figalli was born in Rome (Italy) in 1984. He received his master's degree in mathematics from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 2006, and earned a joint doctorate in 2007 from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. In 2007 he was appointed Chargé de recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and in 2008 he went to the Ecole Polytechnique as Professeur Hadamard. In 2009 he moved to the University of Texas at Austin as Associate Professor. Then he became Full Professor in 2011, and R.L.Moore Chair holder in 2013. In 2016, he joined the mathematics department of the ETH Zurich.

 

Honours

Year Distinction
2018 Fields Medal
2017 ERC Grant "Regularity and Stability in Partial Differential Equations (RSPDE)"
2017 Feltrinelli Prize of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
2016 O'Donnell Award in Science from The Academy for Medicine, Engineering, and Science of Texas
2015 Stampacchia Gold Medal
2014 Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians
2012 Prize of the European Mathematical Society (EMS Prize)
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