Personal informations

• Born: April 1984, Rome (Italy)
• Languages: italian (native), english and french (fluent), spanish (intermediate)
  
• Citizenship: italian citizen, american permanent resident (green card holder)
  
• Status: single

Position held:

• From September 2013: R. L. Moore Chair, The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA)
  
• September 2011 - present: Full Professor, The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA)
  
• September 2009 - August 2011: Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA) 
• September 2009 - August 2010: Harrington Faculty Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA) 
• October 2008 - August 2009: Professor (Professeur Hadamard), Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France)
• October 2007 - September 2008: Researcher (Chargé de recherche CNRS), University of Nice (Nice, France)

Formation:

• February 17, 2009: I obtained my Habilitation à Diriger de Recherche
• Mémoire HDR (in english): Optimal transport, Euler equations, Mather and DiPerna-Lions theories

• November 2006 - September 2007: PhD student at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy) and at the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Lyon (France)
• October 24, 2007: I obtained my PhD degree
• Advisors: Luigi Ambrosio (SNS Pisa) and Cédric Villani (ENS Lyon)
• Phd thesis (in english): Optimal transportation and action-minimizing measures

• October 2002 - October 2006:  undergraduate student at the University of Pisa and at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy).

•  June 23, 2006: I obtained my master degree
• Advisors: Luigi Ambrosio (SNS Pisa) and Giovanni Alberti (University of Pisa)
• Master thesis (in english): Trasporto ottimale su varietà non compatte

• November 29, 2004: I obtained my undergraduate degree
• Advisors: Giovanni Alberti (University of Pisa) and Luigi Ambrosio (SNS Pisa)
• Degree thesis (in italian): Il problema di Bernstein e una congettura di De Giorgi

Honors, Prizes, and Awards:

• Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematics, 2014
  
• Plenary Speaker, AMS Spring Central Regional Meeting, 2014
  
• Plenary Speaker, SIAM Conference on "Analysis of PDEs", 2013
  
• NSF Grant DSM-1262411, "Regularity and stability results in variational problems", 2013-2018
  
• EMS Prize 2012
• Invited speaker, European Congress of Mathematics, 2012
  
• Peccot-Vimont Prize 2011 and Cours Peccot 2012 of the "Collège de France"
  
• Gioacchino Iapichino Prize 2010 of the "Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei"
  
• NSF Grant DMS-0969962, "Analytical and geometrical problems in calculus of variations and partial differential equations", 2010-2013
  
• Anile Prize 2010 of the "Associazione Angelo Marcello Anile" and the "Consorzio Catania Ricerche"
  
• Harrington Faculty Fellowship 2009-2010
• Carlo Miranda Prize 2008 of the "Accademia di Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche di Napoli"
  
• Giuseppe Borgia Prize 2008 of the "Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei"
• Benedetto Sciarra Prize 2006-2007 of the "Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa"

Training:

• Postdocs:

• Clayton Bjorland (2010 - 2011), UT Austin (coadvised with Luis Caffarelli)

• PhD Students:

• Rohit Jain (2011 - present), UT Austin (coadvised with Luis Caffarelli)
• Levon Nurbekian (2011 - 2012), UT Austin-IST Lisbon (coadvised with Diogo Gomes)
• Diego Marcon Farias (2010 - 2013), UT Austin-IST Lisbon (coadvised with Diogo Gomes)
• Emanuel Indrei (2009 - 2013), UT Austin
• Eric Baer (2009 - 2012), UT Austin

• Master Students:

• Vito Mandorino (2008 - 2009), University of Padua and University of Paris VII
  

Scientific and administrative responsibilities:

• Editorial work:
  

• Associate Editor of ESAIM: Control Optim. Calc. Var. (2013 - present)
  
• Managing Editor of Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A (2012 - present)
• Editor of Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A (2011 - 2012)
• Editor of AIMS Book Series, Applied Mathematics (2011 - present)
• Corresponding Editor of Acta Applicandae Mathematicae (2010 - present)

• Committees and projects:

• Member of the PRIN selection committee for the Italian Ministry of Research (2012)
  
• Member of the Chairs hiring committee, Math. Department, The University of Texas at Austin (2011 - present)
• Member of the Strategic planning committee, Math. Department, The University of Texas at Austin (2011 - present)
• Member of the Appointments committee, Math. Department, The University of Texas at Austin (2011 - 2012)
• Member of the ERC project on Geometric Measure Theory in non-Euclidean Spaces (2010 - present)
• Member of the Postdoctoral hiring committee, Math. Department, The University of Texas at Austin (2010 - 2011)
• Member of the Budget committee, Math. Department, The University of Texas at Austin (2009 - present)
• Member of the ANR project on Hamilton-Jacobi et théorie KAM faible (2007 - 2011)

• Conference organization:

• Co-organizer of the Introductory Workshop on Optimal Transport: Geometry and Dynamics (Berkeley, CA, USA, August 2013)
• Co-organizer of the MSRI program on Optimal Transport: Geometry and Dynamics (Berkeley, CA, USA, August-December 2013)
  
• Co-organizer of the workshop Optimal Transportation and Differential Geometry at BIRS (Banff, Canada, May 2012)
• Co-organizer of the CoLab Mathematics Summer School and Workshop Aubry Mather Theory and Optimal Transport (Summer School) - Nonlinear PDEs (Workshop) (Lisbon, Portugal, June 2011)
• Co-organizer of the conference Kynetic theory, optimal transport, probability, geometry: old and new in the honor of Cédric Villani, Fields medalist 2010 (ENS Paris, France, January 2011)
• Organizer of the minisymposium Geometric Measure Theory and Calculus of Variations at IHES Asian-French Summer school on "Singularities in PDE'' (IHES, France, July 2010)
• Co-organizer of the workshop Optimal transportation and applications at BIRS (Banff, Canada, April 2010)
• Organizer of the workshop Nonlinear Analysis and PDEs at the University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA, April 2010), sponsored by the Harrington Foundation
• Organizer of the minisymposium Transport optimal et applications at the SMAI Conference (La Colle sur Loup, France, May 2009)