Luigi Ambrosio (born 27 January 1963) is a professor at
Scuola Normale Superiore in
Pisa, Italy. His main fields of research are the
calculus of variations
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and functional (mathematics), functionals, to find maxima and minima of f ...
and
geometric measure theory
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.
Biography
Ambrosio entered the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 1981. He obtained his degree under the guidance of
Ennio De Giorgi in 1985 at
University of Pisa, and the Diploma at Scuola Normale. He obtained his PhD in 1988.
He is currently professor at the Scuola Normale, having taught previously at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", the
University of Pisa, and the
University of Pavia
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. Ambrosio also taught and conducted research at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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, the
ETH in Zurich, and the
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig.
He is the Managing Editor of the scientific journal ''
Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations'', and member of the editorial boards of scientific journals.
Since May 9, 2019 Ambrosio is the director of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
Awards
In 1998 Ambrosio won the
Caccioppoli Prize of the
Italian Mathematical Union. In 2002 he was
invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians
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in Beijing and in 2003 he has been awarded with the
Fermat Prize. From 2005 he is a corresponding member of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Ambrosio is listed as an
ISI highly cited researcher. In 2018 he was a
plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro. In 2019 he received the
Balzan Prize in Mathematics (Theory of Partial Differential Equations). In 2024 he was awarded the
Nemmers Prize in Mathematics.
Nemmers Prize in Mathematics 2024
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20th-century Italian mathematicians
21st-century Italian mathematicians
Living people
1963 births
People from Alba, Piedmont
Variational analysts
Academic staff of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa