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

probability theory Probability theory or probability calculus 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 expre ...

including

coalescent theory Coalescent theory is a Scientific modelling, model of how alleles sampled from a population may have originated from a most recent common ancestor, common ancestor. In the simplest case, coalescent theory assumes no genetic recombination, recombina ...

random minimum spanning tree In mathematics, a random minimum spanning tree may be formed by assigning independent 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 ...

s, and the theory of

random graph In mathematics, random graph is the general term to refer to probability distributions over graphs. Random graphs may be described simply by a probability distribution, or by a random process which generates them. The theory of random graphs l ...

s. She is professor of probability in the department of statistics,

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

and a fellow of

Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, located on a bank of the River Cherwell at Norham Gardens in north Oxford and adjacent to the University Parks. The ...

Education and career

Goldschmidt read mathematics at

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, 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 25 May 1961) is a French mathematician. He is Professor at the University of Zurich since 2011. Early life and education Bertoin was born in Lyon and completed his undergraduate studies at the École Normale Supérieure of St ...

Pierre and Marie Curie University Pierre and Marie Curie University ( , UPMC), also known as Paris VI, was a public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussieu Campus in the Latin Quarter of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, ...

, as a Stokes fellow at

Pembroke College, Cambridge Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over 700 students and fellows. It is one of the university's larger colleges, with buildings from ...

, 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 and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of ...

. 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 ...

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 British 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 21st-century British women mathematicians