Alberto Bressan

Bressan was born in Venice on 15 June 1956. After earning a laurea (the Italian equivalent of a master's degree) in 1978 from the University of Padua,^[1] he obtained his PhD in mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder under the supervision of Jerrold Bebernes in 1982.^[2]

After postdoctoral research at the University of Padua and the Mathematics Research Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he became an associate professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1986. Bressan received a full professorship at the SISSA in Trieste, Italy in 1991. In 2003, he moved to Penn State University to assume a full professorship there.^[1]

He won the Bôcher Memorial Prize in 2008^[3] and the Analysis of Partial Differential Equations Prize of the SIAM in 2007 for his work in PDEs.^[4] He was appointed to the Eberly Family Chair in Mathematics at Penn State in August 2008.^[5]

In addition to the above, his honors include the A. Feltrinelli prize for Mathematics, Mechanics and Applications of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome.^[6] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[7]

Bressan was invited to give a plenary talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Beijing in August 2002.^[8][9]