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Professor Christina Goldschmidt
Professor of Probability

Biographical Sketch

I did my undergraduate and masters degree in Mathematics at Cambridge, where I remained to do my PhD in the Statistical Laboratory under the supervision of James Norris. I then spent a year working as a postdoc in the Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires at Université Paris VI with Jean Bertoin. From 2004 to 2007, I was the Stokes Fellow in Mathematics at Pembroke College, Cambridge. From 2007 to 2009, I held an EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Statistics at Oxford and a Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson College. From 2009-2011, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Warwick, before returning to Oxford to take up my present position. From January 2016 to December 2020 I held an EPSRC Early Career Fellowship. I was awarded the title of Professor of Probability in 2017.

Research Interests

Random discrete structures, in particular random trees and graphs and their scaling limits; combinatorial stochastic processes, including processes of coagulation and fragmentation. Please see my personal homepage for more about my research and my publications.

Publications

Goldschmidt, C. and Hill, L. (2025) “The stable trees revisited.”
Addario-Berry, L. et al. (2025) “Discrete snakes with globally centered displacements.”
Addario-Berry, L. and Goldschmidt, C. (2024) “Scaling limits of random graphs.”
Dort, L., Goldschmidt, C. and Miermont, G. (2024) “A large deviation principle for the normalized excursion of an α-stable Lévy process without negative jumps”, ALEA – Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, 21(2), pp. 1625–1653.
Dort, L., Goldschmidt, C. and Miermont, G. (2023) “A large deviation principle for the normalized excursion of an α-stable Lévy process without negative jumps”, arXiv.
Goldschmidt, C. and Stephenson, R. (2023) “The scaling limit of a critical random directed graph”, Annals of Applied Probability, 33(3), pp. 2024–2065.
Conchon-Kerjan, G. and Goldschmidt, C. (2023) “THE STABLE GRAPH: THE METRIC SPACE SCALING LIMIT OF A CRITICAL RANDOM GRAPH WITH I.I.D. POWER-LAW DEGREES”, Annals of Probability, 51(1), pp. 1–69.
Goldschmidt, C., Haas, B. and Sénizergues, D. (2022) “Stable graphs: distributions and line-breaking construction”, Annales Henri Lebesgue, 5, pp. 841–904.
Chen, Q. and Goldschmidt, C. (2020) “Parking on a random rooted plane tree”, Bernoulli, 27(1), pp. 93–106.
Goldschmidt, C., Griffiths, S. and Scott, A. (2020) “Moderate deviations of subgraph counts in the Erdős-Rényi random graphs G(n,m) and G(n,p)”, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society [Preprint].

Contact Details

College Affiliation: Tutorial Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall

Email: christina.goldschmidt@stats.ox.ac.uk

Telephone: +44(0)1865 281224

Office number: 3.08

Pronouns: She/Her

Graduate Students

Liam Hill

Michal Bassan

Research Groups