Andrea Braides

Andrea Braides is a Full Professor of Mathematical Analysis at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He holds a dual affiliation with SISSA, Trieste. His research focuses on Calculus of Variations, Homogenization, and Discrete Systems, with applications to materials science and fracture mechanics. He has authored influential books like Gamma-convergence for Beginners and contributed to over 200 publications. His work bridges discrete and continuous models, addressing problems in phase transitions, lattice systems, and geometric measure theory.

• Affiliations: University of Rome Tor Vergata (Department of Mathematics), SISSA, Trieste.
• Education: Laurea in Mathematics (University of Pisa, 1983), PhD in Mathematics under Ennio De Giorgi at Scuola Normale Superiore.

Research Interests: Braides' work emphasizes variational methods, Γ-convergence, and homogenization. He explores energy relaxation in discrete systems, phase transitions in Ising models, and microstructure analysis in materials. His recent studies include long-range interactions, anti-phase boundaries, and stochastic homogenization.

Publications: His 150+ articles span topics like non-local energies, discrete-to-continuum limits, and ferromagnetic systems. Notable recent work includes studies on modulated phases in Ising systems (2025) and closure theorems for Γ-convergence (2024).

• Awards: Tullio Levi Civita Prize (2015), Timoshenko Fellowship (2004), Invited Speaker at ICM 2014.

Advising & Leadership: Supervised 11 PhD theses, including those by R. Alicandro and M. Cicalese. Organized major conferences like the School on Multiple-scale Problems (2001) and the EMS Summer School (2018). Served on editorial boards of Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis and Networks and Heterogeneous Media.

Labs/Teams: Coordinates research groups on variational problems, homogenization, and discrete systems at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and SISSA. Collaborates internationally, including with Oxford and TU Munich on multiscale phenomena.