Career • 2018-present, Research Assistant Professor, ShanghaiTech University • 2015-2017, postdoctoral researcher, Eduard Čech Institute • 2013-2015, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Leibniz Universität Hannover Education • 2013, PhD, Australian National University
I am currently interested in the appearance of certain integrable differential equations in the context of geometric structures on manifolds. An example is the occurrence of the generalised Chazy equation with parameters k=2/3 and k=3/2 in the study of maximally symmetric bracket-generating rank 2 distributions on 5 manifolds. Selected Publications 1. Flat (2,3,5)-distributions and Chazy's equations. SIGMA 12 (2016), 029, 28 pages, DOI 10.3842/SIGMA.2016.029 2. Generalized Ricci Solitons. (Joint work with Paweł Nurowski) The Journal of Geometric Analysis,April 2016, Volume 26, Issue 2, Pages 1280–1345, DOI 10.1007/s12220-015-9592-8 3. Local obstructions to projective surfaces admitting skew-symmetric Ricci tensor. Journal of Geometry and Physics, Volume 76, February 2014, Pages 192–199,http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomphys.2013.10.019 | Email: mjrandall@shanghaitech.edu.cn Office: S515, School of Creativity & Arts |