The Fubini Prize endowned with 10,000 euros was funded by the Fubini-Jacobs family with the contribution of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, in memory of Guido Fubini (1879-1943). The prize supports young mathematicians under 40 years old who resident in Italy (or temporarily abroad) and who have obtained results in the fields of pure or applied mathematics that are recognised by the international scientific community.
Alessia Nota's research is focused in the field of kinetic theory of gases and plasmas. She studies problems which naturally arise from physics and can be analyzed with a rigorous mathematical approach. Alessia Nota is currently Associate Professor at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), an international PhD school and a center of advances studies in Applied Mathematics, Astroparticle Physics, Computer Science, and Regional Science located in L'Aquila, Italy. Previously, she had been Ricercatore di tipo B (tenure-track associate professor) at the Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics (DISIM) at the Università degli Studi dell'Aquila (UnivAq) and, before, postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Applied Mathematics of the University of Bonn, investigator of the Research Area C1 at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, and member of the Collaborative Research Centre 1060 "The Mathematics of Emergent Effects" based at the University of Bonn.