Susanne Ditlevsen

Susanne Dalager Ditlevsen at the MFO Seminar Statistics for Stochastic Differential Equations, 2011

Susanne Ditlevsen is a Danish mathematician and statistician, interested in mathematical biology, perception, dynamical systems, and statistical modeling of biological systems. [1]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.[2][3]

Ditlevsen was an actor before she became a researcher.[4] She completed her Ph.D. in 2004 at the University of Copenhagen. Her dissertation, Modeling of physiological processes by stochastic differential equations, was supervised by Michael Sørensen.[5]

In 2012, Ditlevsen became an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[6] In 2016, Ditlevsen was elected to the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.[2]

In 2023, she and her brother Peter, a climate scientist, published an article predicting that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation has a 95% chance of collapsing between 2025 and 2095, with the statistical average of the predictions being 2057.[7] 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).

References

  1. ^ Zhong, Raymond (2023-07-25). "Warming Could Push the Atlantic Past a 'Tipping Point' This Century". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  2. ^ a b Two mathematicians elected to the Academy of Science, University of Copenhagen Department of Mathematical Sciences, May 2, 2016
  3. ^ Susanne Ditlevsen, University of Copenhagen Department of Mathematical Sciences, 2013-05-13, retrieved 2018-12-05
  4. ^ Professor Susanne Ditlevsen (in Danish), Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, retrieved 2018-12-05
  5. ^ Susanne Ditlevsen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ Individual members, International Statistical Institute, retrieved 2018-12-05
  7. ^ Ditlevsen, Peter; Ditlevsen, Susanne (2023-07-25). "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.