Employees

Professor of mathematics Morten S. Risager will give his inaugural lecture at Department of Mathematical Sciences Friday 15 June 2018 at 14:15, followed by a reception.

Lasse Petersen is employed as a PhD student from 1 May 2018 and is associated with the Section for Statistics and Probability Theory and the Copenhagen Causality Lab.

Peter Høyer joins QMATH from April to June 2018. Peter is interested in all aspects of quantum computation and theoretical computer science. He is currently working on speeding up random walks by quantum tunnelling, an important subroutine in many algorithms. 

Péter Vrana, assistant professor at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, is visiting QMATH for six months.

Professor Charles Bennett from IBM Research is visiting QMATH and the Niels Bohr International Academy from April to June this year on a grant from the Simons Foundation. 

The Dean has appointed Mathias Drton Professor of Statistics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences from 1 August 2018. Drton is also elected as a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

The Dean has appointed Morten S. Risager Professor of Mathematics (Analytic number theory) at the Department of Mathematical Sciences from 1 April 2018.

Katja has previously been in the position of head of administration and is therefore extremely well-known with the duties and the people here.

Helle Sørensen has been called for a professorship at the Department of Mathematical Sciences. Helle is internationally recognized for her many research contributions in both theoretical and applied statistics and is known for her ability to establish close and fruitful collaborations with researchers from other sciences.

1 February 2018 Peter Johnson joined the Department of Mathematical Sciences as a postdoc working with Jesper Lund Pedersen on Non-linear optimal stopping problems. Peter will be associated with the Section for Insurance and Economics.

Jacob is affiliated with the research group Statistics and Probability Theory as postdoc starting from January 1st 2018. 

Anssi Lahtinen returned to the University of Copenhagen on 1 January 2018 as a visiting assistant professor. He will be affiliated with the topology group and the Centre for Symmetry and Deformation.

Alexandra joined the department as a postdoc in October 2017. She is funded by her Villum Experiment grant for the project, “Beyond the Genome: Re-theorizing the cellular system“.

Robert Jonsson joined the Centre for the Mathematics of Quantum Theory (QMATH) at the University of Copenhagen as postdoc on November 1st, 2017.

The Dean has appointed Giovanni Pantuso as associate professor in Operations Research at the Department of Mathematical Sciences from 1 October 2017. He will be affiliated with the Section of Insurance and Economics.