Mario Pulvirenti is an Italian mathematician, Professor emeritus of Mathematical Physics at Sapienza University of Rome.
He spent research periods at École Normale Supérieure, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques and Rutgers University.
He is currently member of Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica and of Accademia dei Lincei, one of the highest Italian academic institutions.
He is one of the major experts in mathematical aspects of kinetic theory,[4] and among his research topics are also fluid dynamics and statistical mechanics.
In particular, he obtained (together with Reinhard Illner) the only rigorous global derivation in time of the Boltzmann equation from particle dynamics known up to now.