Susanne Ditlevsen (born 1965)[1] is a Danish mathematician and statistician, interested in mathematical biology, perception, dynamical systems, and statistical modeling of biological systems.[2] She is a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Copenhagen, where she heads the section of statistics and probability theory.
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 Ditlevsen at the MFO seminar Statistics for Stochastic Differential Equations in 2011 | |
| Born | 1965 (age 60–61) Denmark |
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| Relatives | Sara Hjort Ditlevsen (niece) |
Early life
editDitlevsen was born in Denmark. She graduated from Det frie Gymnasium in 1983. She was an actress before she became a researcher.[1]
Career
editDitlevsen earned a masters degree in mathematics from the National University of Distance Education in Spain in 1999. The following year, she earned a masters degree in stastics from the University of Copenhagen. In 2004, she received a Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen with the dissertation Modeling of physiological processes by stochastic differential equations.[1]
After receiving her Ph.D., Ditlevsen became a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen in 2011.[1] In 2012, she became an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and in 2016, she was elected to the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.[3][4]
In 2023, she and her brother Peter, a climate scientist, published an article predicting that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation has a chance of collapsing between 2025 and 2095 (95% confidence interval), with the statistical average of the predictions being 2057 (updated in August 2025 to between 2037 and 2109, with average of 2065).[5] When this tipping point is reached, it will have severe consequences to the world's climate, especially of northern Europe (see Effects of AMOC slowdown).[2]
Personal life
editHer niece is actress Sara Hjort Ditlevsen.[6]
References
edit- 1 2 3 4 Højgaard, Liselotte (19 April 2024). "Tagea Brandt's travel grant to Susanne Ditlevsen". University of Copenhagen. Retrieved 7 April 2026.
- 1 2 Zhong, Raymond (25 July 2023). "Warming Could Push the Atlantic Past a 'Tipping Point' This Century". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
- ↑ "Individual Members". International Statistical Institute. Archived from the original on 6 November 2015. Retrieved 7 April 2026.
- ↑ "Two mathematicians elected to the Academy of Science". University of Copenhagen. 2 May 2016. Archived from the original on 6 December 2018. Retrieved 7 April 2026.
- ↑ Ditlevsen, Peter; Ditlevsen, Susanne (25 July 2023). "Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation". Nature Communications. 14 (1): 4254. arXiv:2304.09160. Bibcode:2023NatCo..14.4254D. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-39810-w. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 10368695. PMID 37491344.
- ↑ Skarum, Sarah (18 March 2025). ""Jeg kan godt se, hvor gammel jeg er. Men så gammel er jeg jo også"". Politiken (in Danish). Retrieved 6 April 2026.
External links
edit- Home page
- Susanne Ditlevsen publications indexed by Google Scholar