Camillo De Lellis was born in 1976 in San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy. After earning his undergraduate degree in mathematics at the University of Pisa in 1999, he wrote his doctoral dissertation in 2002 under the supervision of Luigi Ambrosio at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. He joined the faculty of the University of Zürich in 2004 as Assistant Professor of Mathematics, and he was appointed Full Professor in 2005. In 2018 he moved to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he holds the IBM von Neumann Professorship. He is active in the fields of calculus of variations, geometric measure theory, hyperbolic systems of conservation laws and fluid dynamics. He has been a plenary speaker at the European Congress of Mathematics at Krakow in 2012 and is a member of the Academia Aeuropea, of the German Academy of Sciences, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the recepient of the 2009 Stampacchia Medal, 2013 SIAG/APDE Prize (jointly with La'szlo' Sze'kelyhidi Jr.), 2013 Fermat Prize (jointly with Martin Hairer), 2014 Caccioppoli prize, 2015 Amerio Prize, 2020 Bocher Prize (jointly with Larry Guth and Laure Saint-Raymond), 2020 Feltrinelli prize, and 2021 Myriam Mirzakhani prize.
