Alessio Corti

Alessio Corti (born 1965)^[1] is a Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London working in Algebraic Geometry.

Alessio Corti
Born	(1965-09-25) 25 September 1965 (age 59) Milan, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Alma mater	University of Utah University of Pisa
Known for	Algebraic Geometry
Awards	Junior Whitehead Prize (2002)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Imperial College London University of Cambridge University of Chicago Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Thesis	Families of Del Pezzo Surfaces  (1992)
Doctoral advisor	János Kollár Fabrizio Catanese
Doctoral students	Vladimir Lazić

Corti studied at the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where he gained a diploma (Laurea) in 1987. He obtained his PhD in 1992 at the University of Utah under the supervision of János Kollár.^[2]

As a post-doctoral researcher, he was at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California. From 1993 to 1996 he was the Dickson Instructor at the University of Chicago and in 1996 became lecturer, later reader, of mathematics at the University of Cambridge. Since 2005 he has been a professor at Imperial College London.^[3] In 2002, he was awarded the London Mathematical Society's Whitehead Prize.^[4]

He is the originator of a project to create a periodic table of shapes.^{[citation needed]}

He is married and has a daughter, Beatrice (born 17 September 1992).^[5]