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# Personal Profile of Prof. Luigi Ambrosio

Prof. Luigi Ambrosio
Dipartimento di Matematica

 \item[] Born in 1963 in Alba (CN), Italy \item[\small 1985-1988\hfill] {\bf Scuola Normale Superiore}\\ Corso di Perfezionamento (PHD). \item[\small 1981-1985\hfill] {\bf Scuola Normale Superiore}\\ Pisa, Italy.\\ \item[\small 1981-1985\hfill] {\bf Laurea in Matematica (B.S.)}\\ University of Pisa, Italy. Summa cum laude.\\ Advisor: Prof. Ennio De Giorgi. Thesis in semicontinuity and relaxation of integral functionals defined on Sobolev spaces. \end{list} \ \\ % {\bf PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE} % \begin{list}{}{\setlength{\leftmargin}{1.2in}\setlength{\labelwidth}{1.15in} \setlength{\labelsep}{0in}} % \item[\small 1997--{present}\hfill] {\bf Full Professor}\\ Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy. \item[\small 1995--1997\hfill] {\bf Full Professor}\\ Department of Mathematics, University of Pavia, Italy. \item[\small 1994--1995\hfill] {\bf Full Professor}\\ University of Benevento, Italy. \item[{\small 1992--1994}\hfill] {\bf Associate Professor}\\ University of Pisa, Italy. \item[{\small 1988-1992}\hfill] {\bf Research Assistant}\\ Second University of Rome, Italy. \end{list} \ \\ % {\bf HONORS} % \begin{list}{}{\setlength{\leftmargin}{0.5in}\setlength{\labelwidth}{0in} \setlength{\labelsep}{0.5in}} % \item[] Long term visiting scientist in the Max Planck Institute of Leipzig, the Massachussets Institut of Technology, the ETH of Zurich, the Institute Henri Poincar\'e \item[] 1991 Bortolozzi'' Prize of Unione Matematica Italiana. \item[] 1996 National Prize for Mathematics and Mechanics of the italian Minister of Education. \item[] 1996 Invited speaker at the 2nd European congress of mathematicians in Budapest. \item[] 1999 Caccioppoli'' Prize of the Unione Matematica Italiana. \item[] 1999 Editor of Interfaces and Free Boundaries'', Main Editor of the Journal of the European Mathematical Society'' until 2011 \item[] 2000 Editor of Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis'' until 2011. \item[] 2002 Invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing, in the PDE session \item[] 2003 Awarded with the international Fermat Prize of the University of Toulouse (France) \item[] 2003 Member of the scientific committee of the fourth European Congress of Mathematics \item[] 2005 Managing Editor of Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations'' \item[] 2005 Editor of Communications in Partial Differential Equations \item[] 2005 Socio Corrispondente Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma \item[] 2006 Socio Corrispondente Istituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, Milano \item[] 2006 Editor of Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences \item [] 2007 His paper on flows associated to $BV$ vector fields described in the s\'eminaire Bourbaki, expos\'e 972 \item[] 2008 Plenary speaker at the fifth European Congress of Mathematics in Amsterdam \item[] 2009 Member of the selection committee for the ICM 2010, PDE session \item[] 2011 Editor of Geometric and Functional Analysis. \item[] 2013 His papers on gradient flows described in the s\'eminaire Bourbaki, expos\'e 1065 \item[] 2013 Member of Academia Europaea \item[] 2013 Member of the IMU committee for the Fields Medals 2014 \item[] 2015 Invited speaker at the S\'eminaire N.Bourbaki \item[] 2015 Awarded with the Gold medal for achievements in Mathematics, by the XL National Academy of Sciences, Italy \item[] 2015 PhD honoris causa awarded by the ENS Lyon \item[] 2015 Member of the Editorial Board of the series Progress in Nonlinear PDE'' \item[] 2015-16 Member of the committee of the Abel Prize in Mathematics \item[] 2018 Plenary speaker at ICM in Rio de Janeiro \item[] 2018 Member of the Editorial Board of Pure and Applied Functional Analysis \item[] 2019 Member of the scientific committee of the VIII European Meeting of Mathematics \item[] 2019-2022 Member at large of the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union \item[] 2019 Awarded with the Blaise Pascal medal of the European Academy of Sciences.