Oscar Randal-Williams is a

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mathematician and

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at the

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, working in

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. He studied mathematics at the

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(MMath 2006, DPhil 2009), where he wrote his doctoral thesis ''Stable moduli spaces of manifolds'' under the supervision of

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. Since 2012 he has been at the

, since 2017 as

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and since 2020 as

. In joint work with

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, he studied moduli spaces of

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s, leading to a sequence of papers about which his coauthor talked at the ICM 2014. In 2017, he received a

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from the

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and a

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, in 2018 he was awarded an ERC Starting Grant, and in 2019 the Dannie Heineman Prize of the

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and the

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. He is one of two managing editors of the ''

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'', and an editor of the ''

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''. In 2022, he was awarded the

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jointly with Søren Galatius.

Selected publications

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