Anders C. Hansen is Reader in Mathematics at University of Cambridge and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oslo. He received the Leverhulme Prize in Mathematics and Statistics (2017), the 2018 IMA Prize in Mathematics and Applications and the Whitehead Prize (2019). He has had papers published in outlets such as the Journal of the American Mathematical Society and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and featured on the cover of Physical Review Letters and SIAM News.