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 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). [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).
