Christina Anna Goldschmidt is a British probabilist known for her work in

probability theory Probability theory is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability. Although there are several different probability interpretations, probability theory treats the concept in a rigorous mathematical manner by expressing it through a set o ...

including

coalescent theory Coalescent theory is a model of how alleles sampled from a population may have originated from a common ancestor. In the simplest case, coalescent theory assumes no recombination, no natural selection, and no gene flow or population structure, m ...

random minimum spanning tree In mathematics, a random minimum spanning tree may be formed by assigning random weights from some distribution to the edges of an undirected graph, and then constructing the minimum spanning tree of the graph. When the given graph is a complete gr ...

s, and the theory of random graphs. She is professor of probability in the department of statistics,

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

and a fellow of

Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located on the banks of the River Cherwell at Norham Gardens in north Oxford and adjacent to the University Parks. The college is more formall ...

Education and career

Goldschmidt read mathematics at New Hall, Cambridge, and continued at the statistical laboratory of Cambridge for her Ph.D. Her 2004 dissertation, ''Large Random Hypergraphs'', was supervised by

James R. Norris James Ritchie Norris (born 29 August 1960) is a mathematician working in probability theory and stochastic analysis. He is the Professor of Stochastic Analysis in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge. He has made contributions to ...

. She did postdoctoral research with

Jean Bertoin Jean Bertoin (born 1961) is a French mathematician, specializing in probability theory. Education and career Bertoin received in 1987 his doctorate from University of Paris VI under Marc Yor with ''Étude des processus de Dirichlet''. Bertoin taug ...

Pierre and Marie Curie University Pierre and Marie Curie University (french: link=no, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, UPMC), also known as Paris 6, was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussi ...

, as a Stokes fellow at

Pembroke College, Cambridge Pembroke College (officially "The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College or Hall of Valence-Mary") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over 700 ...

, and as an EPSRC postdoctoral fellow at Oxford, before becoming an assistant professor in 2009 at the

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands (county), West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded i ...

. She returned to Oxford in 2011 and was promoted to full professor in 2017.

Recognition

Goldschmidt was a Medallion Lecturer of the

Institute of Mathematical Statistics The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. The Institute currently has about 4,000 members in all parts o ...

in 2016. In 2019 she was chosen to become a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, "for fundamental contributions to the fields of coalescence and fragmentation theory, and to continuum limits for random trees and graphs".

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Goldschmidt describes her work on random minimum spanning trees
Oxford Mathematical Institute {{DEFAULTSORT:Goldschmidt, Christina Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British mathematicians British statisticians Women mathematicians Women statisticians Probability theorists Alumni of New Hall, Cambridge Academics of the University of Warwick Fellows of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics British women mathematicians