Alessandra Lunardi (born 1958) is an Italian mathematician specializing in

mathematical analysis Analysis is the branch of mathematics dealing with continuous functions, limit (mathematics), limits, and related theories, such as Derivative, differentiation, Integral, integration, measure (mathematics), measure, infinite sequences, series (m ...

. She is a professor in the department of mathematics and computer science at the

University of Parma The University of Parma ( it, Università degli Studi di Parma, UNIPR) is a public university in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. It is organised in nine departments. As of 2016 the University of Parma has about 26,000 students. History During the ...

. She is particularly interested in

Kolmogorov equations In probability theory, Kolmogorov equations, including Kolmogorov forward equations and Kolmogorov backward equations, characterize continuous-time Markov processes. In particular, they describe how the probability that a continuous-time Markov pro ...

and free boundary problems.

Education and career

Lunardi was educated at the

University of Pisa The University of Pisa ( it, Università di Pisa, UniPi), officially founded in 1343, is one of the oldest universities in Europe. History The Origins The University of Pisa was officially founded in 1343, although various scholars place ...

, completing her undergraduate studies there in 1980 and earning a Ph.D. there in 1983. Her dissertation, ''Analyticity of the maximal solution to fully nonlinear equations in Banach spaces'', was supervised by Giuseppe Da Prato. After continuing on at Pisa as a researcher from 1984 to 1987, she was hired as a full professor at the

University of Cagliari The University of Cagliari ( it, Università degli Studi di Cagliari) is a university in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. It was founded in 1606 and is organized in 11 faculties. History The ''Studium Generalis Kalaritanum'' was founded in 1606 alon ...

in 1987, and moved to Parma in 1994.

Contributions

Lunardi is the author of ''Analytic semigroups and optimal regularity in parabolic problems'' (Birkhäuser, 1995, reprinted 2013) and of ''Interpolation theory'' (Edizioni della Normale, 1998, 3rd ed., 2018). With G. Da Prato, P. C. Kunstmann, I. Lasiecka, R. Schnaubelt, and L. Weis, she is a co-author of ''Functional Analytic Methods for Evolution Equations'' (Springer, 2004). Lunardi is one of six editors-in-chief of the journal ''Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications (NoDEA)''. She also served as editor-in-chief of ''

Rivista di Matematica della Università di Parma The ''Rivista di Matematica della Università di Parma'' (The Mathematical Revue of the University of Parma) is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal published by the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Parma, establi ...

'' for Series 7 of the journal, from 2002 to 2008.

Recognition

In 1987, Lunardi won the

Bartolozzi Prize The Bartolozzi Prize is awarded by the Italian Mathematical Union every two years. Until 2017 it was awarded to an Italian mathematician below the age of 34. Starting with the 2019 edition, the prize is now reserved for female Italian mathematician ...

of the

Italian Mathematical Union The Italian Mathematical Union ( it, Unione Matematica Italiana) is a mathematical society based in Italy. It was founded on December 7, 1922 by Luigi Bianchi, Vito Volterra, and most notably, Salvatore Pincherle, who became the Union's first Pr ...

. In 2017, she won the of the

Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere The Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere is an Italian academy founded by Napoleon in 1797. At the time of the foundation the Istituto was an institution of the Cisalpine Republic and its name was Istituto Nazionale della Repubblica Cis ...

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