Luigi Ambrosio | |
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Born | 27 January 1963 Alba, Piedmont, Italy | (age 61)
Nationality | Italian |
Alma mater | Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, (PhD, 1988) |
Known for | Free discontinuity problems, Theory of BV functions, Geometric measure theory, Analysis in metric spaces |
Awards | Bartolozzi Prize (1991) Caccioppoli Prize (1998) Fermat Prize (2003) Balzan Prize (2019) Riemann Prize (2022) Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (2024) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Calculus of variations, Partial differential equations |
Institutions | Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa |
Doctoral advisor | Ennio De Giorgi |
Doctoral students |
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 and geometric measure theory.[1]