Maria Colombo | |
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 Colombo in 2021 | |
| Born | (1989-05-25)25 May 1989 (age 36) |
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| Education | Mathematics |
| Alma mater | University of Pisa Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa |
| Thesis | Flows of non-smooth vector fields and degenerate elliptic equations: With applications to the Vlasov-Poisson and semigeostrophic systems (2015) |
| Doctoral advisor | Luigi Ambrosio Alessio Figalli |
| Other advisor | Camillo De Lellis |
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| Discipline | Mathematics |
| Institutions | EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne),ETH Zurich,University of Zurich |
| Main interests | Mathematical analysis Calculus of variations Partial differential equation |
| Website | www |
Maria Colombo (born 25 May 1989)[1] is an Italian mathematician specializing inmathematical analysis. She is a professor at theEPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland, where she holds the chair for mathematical analysis,calculus of variations andpartial differential equations.[2][3]
Colombo was born inLuino, near the Swiss border with Italy.[1][4] She competed for Italy in the 2005, 2006, and 2007International Mathematical Olympiads, earning bronze, gold, and silver medals respectively.[5]
She earned bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics at theUniversity of Pisa in 2010 and 2011,[1] and completed a PhD in 2015 at theScuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, under the joint supervision ofLuigi Ambrosio andAlessio Figalli.[1][6] Her dissertation,Flows of non-smooth vector fields and degenerate elliptic equations: With applications to the Vlasov-Poisson and semigeostrophic systems, was published as a book in 2017 by Edizioni della Normale.[7]
She did postdoctoral research withCamillo De Lellis at theUniversity of Zurich and was a junior fellow at the Institute of Theoretical Studies atETH Zurich. She then joined theEPFL as an assistant professor in 2018,[1] and was promoted to full professor in 2021.[3]
TheAccademia dei Lincei gave Colombo their Gioacchino Iapichino Prize for 2016.[4][8] She was the 2017 winner of theCarlo Miranda Prize of theNational Society of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Naples [it],[4][9] and the 2019 winner of theBartolozzi Prize of theItalian Mathematical Union.[10] She is the 2022 winner of the biennial Peter Lax Award, to be given at the International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems,[11] and the 2023 winner of the Collatz Prize of theInternational Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, "for her fundamental contributions to regularity theory and the analysis of singularities in elliptic partial differential equations, geometric variational problems, transport equations, and incompressible fluid dynamics".[12] In 2024, she was awarded theEMS Prize forbreakthrough results in fluid dynamics, optimal transport and kinetic theory, and for her impact on analysis more broadly.[13] That same year, she was awarded theStampacchia Medal.[14]
Colombo is married to Simone, an engineer, with whom she has four children.[14]
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