Ambrosio entered the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 1981. He obtained his degree under the guidance of
Ennio De Giorgi in 1985 at
University of Pisa, and the Diploma at Scuola Normale. He obtained his PhD in 1988. He is currently professor at the Scuola Normale, having taught previously at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", the
University of Pisa, and the
University of Pavia. Ambrosio also taught and conducted research at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the
ETH in Zurich, and the
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig. He is the Managing Editor of the scientific journal
Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, and member of the editorial boards of scientific journals. Since May 9, 2019 Ambrosio is the director of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. ==Awards==