Freddie Manners was a PhD student of Ben Green between 2012 and 2016, and is now a postdoctoral researcher (Szegő Assistant Professor) at Stanford. His research interests are in the area of additive combinatorics, and at their core concern Gowers norms, nilsequences and the inverse theory of the Gowers norms, as well as more classical questions related to Freĭman's theorem; and applications of these methods to nearby areas.