Alessio Figalli

Alessio Figalli is a Chaired Professor in Mathematics at ETH Zurich, and the Director of the FIM (Institute for Mathematical Research) at ETH. After a joint Phd in Mathematics at SNS Pisa (Italy) and ENS Lyon (France) in 2007, he was a professor in France and the US, before moving to ETH Zurich in 2016. Alessio works on several topics in mathematics, including Calculus of Variations, Optimal Transportation, and Partial Differential Equations. For his achievements, he was awarded the Fields Medal in 2018