Maria Colombo (mathematician) participant of International Mathematical Olympiad
Education and career
Colombo was born in Luino, near the Swiss border of Italy. She competed for Italy in the 2005, 2006, and 2007 International Mathematical Olympiads, earning bronze, gold, and silver medals respectively.She earned bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics at the University of Pisa in 2010 and 2011, and completed a Ph.D. in 2015 at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, under the joint supervision of Luigi Ambrosio and Alessio Figalli. 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.After postdoctoral research with Camillo De Lellis at the University of Zurich, she joined the EPFL as an assistant professor in 2018, and was promoted to full professor in 2021.