Held every four years, the International Congress of Mathematicians is the most important scientific event in the discipline. One of its highlights is the awards ceremony for the Fields Medal, the most prestigious distinction in the world of mathematics, honoring researchers under the age of 40. One of the four winners this year is Alessio Figalli, an Italian mathematician born on April 2, 1984 in Rome. In 2005, while a student at the respected Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Figalli was invited by Albert Fathi for a long-term residency at ENS Lyon. With his master's degree from Pisa completed in 2006, he extended his residency at ENS Lyon to prepare a thesis, co-supervised by Luigi Ambrosio and Cédric Villani. He finished the work in an exceptionally short time, completing his defense in October 2007. Even before his thesis defense, in September 2007, he joined CNRS as a researcher at the Laboratoire Jean-Alexandre Dieudonné (CNRS/Université Nice Sophia Antipolis).
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