2018 Fields medal for Alessio Figalli

Born in 1984, Alessio Figalli received his master's degree in mathematics from the Scuola normale superiore di Pisa in 2006. One year later he earned his doctorate - Optimal transportation and action-minimizing measures - at the École normale supérieure de Lyon under the supervision of Luigi Ambrosio and Cédric Villani. He was appointed Chargé de recherche at the CNRS in 2007 and he went to the École polytechnique as Professeur Hadamard in 2008. In 2009 he moved to the University of Texas at Austin as Associate Professor. Then he became Full Professor in 2011, and R. L. Moore Chair holder in 2013. Since 2016, he is a chaired professor at ETH Zürich.