Franco Tomarelli received a Degree in Mathematics at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, graduated at Pisa University in 1978, pursued his studies at the UniversiteĢ Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris and the Minneapolis School of Mathematics of the University of Minnesota. Associate professor at Pavia University from 1988 to 1990. Full professor of Mathematical Analysis at the Politecnico di Milano since 1990. Award Premio Bruno Finzi 1997. Socio Corrispondente of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere since 2006. Head of Seminario Matematico e Fisico di Milano from 2009 to 2015. Managing Editor of the Milan Journal of Mathematics (Springer) since 2016. His main research achievements concern topics in calculus of variations, differential problems in continuum mechanics and variational models for segmentation and inpainting of digital images.
