Goldschmidt read mathematics at New Hall, Cambridge, and continued at the statistical laboratory of Cambridge for her Ph.D.[2] Her 2004 dissertation, Large Random Hypergraphs, was supervised by James R. Norris.[3]
Goldschmidt was a Medallion Lecturer of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2016.[4] In 2019 she was chosen to become a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, "for fundamental contributions to the fields of coalescence and fragmentation theory, and to continuum limits for random trees and graphs".[5]