Prof. Dr. Alessio Figalli
Prof. Dr. Alessio Figalli
Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics
Head of Institute for Mathematical Research
Additional information
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) |
