Alessio Figalli

Alessio is a Member of the Strategic Council at Planven Entrepreneur Ventures.

Chaired Professor at ETH Zurich.

In 2018 Alessio won the Fields Medal (the Nobel Prize equivalent for mathematics), "for his contributions to the theory of optimal transport, and its application to partial differential equations, metric geometry, and probability“.

In 2009 moved to the University of Texas at Austin as Associate Professor, becoming Full Professor in 2011, and R. L. Moore Chair holder in 2013.

In 2007 appointed Chargé de recherche at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, in 2008 he went to the École polytechnique as Professeur Hadamard.

Master’s degree from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 2006, and earned his doctorate in 2007 under the supervision of Luigi Ambrosio and Cédric Villani.

Alessio is a mathematician working primarily on calculus of variations and partial differential equations.