Raphael Hauser is a faculty member in the Numerical Analysis Group at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. His research interests focus on convex optimization and convex analysis. On the theory side he is interested in complexity theory and the probabilistic analysis of algorithms, as well as in condition numbers and the design of algorithms, particularly distributed algorithms for high dimensional problems. On the applications side, Prof. Hauser is interested in the design of optimization models in mathematical finance, in medical imaging and dimensionality reduction for data science.