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Christian Webb is Professor of Mathematical Physics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Helsinki. His research centers on mathematical physics and probability theory, focusing on complex phenomena such as multiplicative chaos, log-correlated Gaussian fields, random matrices, and models like the sine-Gordon equation. Webb applies probabilistic models to analyze physical systems with numerous interacting particles, including properties like electrical conductivity in materials where individual atomic modeling is infeasible. He is a member of the Mathematical Physics research group and associated with the FiRST Centre of Excellence in Randomness and Structures. Webb teaches courses including Probability IIA, Probability IIb, and Introduction to Complex Analysis.
In 2021, as Assistant Professor of mathematical physics, Webb received the Väisälä Prize from the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, recognizing his distinguished contributions to mathematics and science during the active phase of his career. In 2025, he was awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant for the period 2025-2030. Key publications include 'Critical Mandelbrot Cascades' (2014, with Julien Barral, Antti Kupiainen, Miika Nikula, and Eero Saksman), 'Multiplicative chaos and the characteristic polynomial of the CUE: the L1-phase' (2020, with Miika Nikula and Eero Saksman), 'The Riemann zeta function and Gaussian multiplicative chaos: Statistics on the critical line' (2020, with Eero Saksman), 'Basic properties of critical lognormal multiplicative chaos' (2015, with Julien Barral, Antti Kupiainen, Miika Nikula, and Eero Saksman), 'Exact Asymptotics of the Freezing Transition of a Logarithmically Correlated Random Energy Model' (2011), and 'Multiplicative chaos measures from thick points of log-correlated fields' (2024, with Janne Junnila). He delivered his inaugural lecture as Professor of Mathematical Physics titled 'Beyond chaos' on December 3, 2025. Webb studied mathematics and physics following upper secondary school specialized in mathematics.
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