Department of Mathematical Sciences

News from CoCaLa

Postdoctoral Positions in Statistics and the Mathematics of Insurance and Economics 2025

The Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen is seeking top early-career researchers for a number of attractive one-to-three-year postdoctoral positions.

Alex Markham, postdoc

Alex joins the section for Statistics and Probability Theory as a postdoc working with Copenhagen Causality Lab on 1 September 2024.

Sebastian Weichwald, associate professor

The Dean has 1 August 2024 promoted Sebastian Weichwald to Associate Professor in Statistics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, UCPH.

Silvan Vollmer, PhD student

Silvan Vollmer is employed as a PhD student from 1 May 2024 in the department’s section for Statistics and Probability Theory.

Luigi Gresele, postdoc

Luigi was employed on 2 January 2024 as a postdoc at the Copenhagen Causality Lab, working with Prof. Sebastian Weichwald.

Niklas Andreas Pfister, Associate Professor

The Dean has 1 August 2023 promoted Niklas Pfister to Associate Professor of Mathematics. He will remain affiliated with the section Statistics and Probability Theory.

Sebastian Weichwald appointed co-lead at AI centre

Assistant Professor Sebastian Weichwald from the Department of Mathematical Sciences has been appointed co-lead in the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence. As co-lead, he will help set the tone for the next…

Nicola Gnecco, postdoc

Nicola Gnecco started on 1 October 2022 as a postdoc in the Statistics & Probability Theory Section and the Copenhagen Causality Lab.

Margherita Lazzaretto, PhD student

Margherita Lazzaretto is employed as a PhD student from 1 October 2022 in the department’s section for Statistics and Probability Theory.

Frederik Hytting Jørgensen, research assistant

Frederik Hytting Jørgensen was employed at the department on 1 September 2022; the first two months as a research assistant, from November 2022 as a PhD student.

Myrto Limnios, postdoc

Myrto Limnios is employed as a postdoc in the section Statistics and Probability Theory from 1 May 2022. She works with Niels Richard Hansen in the Copenhagen Causality Lab.

Ella Jacobsen, PhD student

On 1 April 2022, Ella Jacobsen was employed as a PhD student in the department's section for Statistics and Probability Theory.

Royal Aacdemy's silver medal to Jonas Peters

The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters awards its silver medal to Professor Jonas Peters, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, for his research in causality.

Developing a unified statistical framework for analyzing microbiome data

Assistant professor Niklas Pfister has received a 9.8 million DKK Data Science Emerging Investigator grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation for his research project CausalBiome.

Leonard Henckel, postdoc

Leonard Henckel is employed as a postdoc in the section Statistics and Probability Theory from 1 October 2021. He works with Jonas Peters in the Copenhagen Causality Lab.

Sebastian Weichwald, assistant professor

Sebastian Weichwald was 1 September 2021 employed as an assistant professor in the section for Statistics and Probability Theory, working in the Copenhagen Causality Lab (CoCaLa).

Shimeng Huang, PhD student

Shimeng Huang was 1 September 2021 employed as a PhD student at the section for Statistics and Probability Theory, working with the research group Copenhagen Causality Lab.

Alexander Mangulad Christgau, PhD student

Alexander is employed from 1 September 2021 as a PhD student at the section for Statistics and Probability, working with the Copenhagen Causality Lab with Niels Richard Hansen as supervisor.

The Novo Nordisk Foundation supports data science at MATH

Professors Susanne Ditlevsen and Niels Richard Hansen from the Department of Mathematical Sciences have been granted a total of DKK 16.6 million to explore new methods for statistical inference and to identify causal…

Jeffrey Adams, PhD student

Jeffrey Adams joined the department as a PhD student on 1 September 2020 and is associated with the Copenhagen Causality Lab in the Section for Statistics and Probability Theory.

Predrag Pilipovic, research assistant

Predrag is employed as a research assistant working with the section for Statistics and Probability Theory. Later he will begin as a PhD student under supervision from Susanne Ditlevsen.

Rikke Søndergaard Nielsen, PhD student

Rikke is employed from 1 September 2020 as a PhD student at the section for Statistics and Probability, working with the Copenhagen Causality Lab with Jonas Martin Peters as supervisor.

Sorawit Saengkyongam, PhD student

Sorawit is employed as a research assistant until he can start as a PhD student in Copenhagen Causality Lab at the section for Statistics and Probability Theory. His PhD will be co-supervised by Jonas Peters and Niklas…

Rune Christiansen, postdoc

On July 1st 2020, Rune starts a position as postdoc in the section for Statistics and Probability Theory, associated with the research group Copenhagen Causality Lab.

Niklas Pfister, assistant professor

Niklas has been employed as a tenure track assistant professor at the section for Statistics and Probability Theory in the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

MATH team clear winner of international data-climate competition

Team CoCaLa, four PhD students and two postdocs from the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, won the international competition "Causality 4 Climate" by proposing models and solutions in 34…

Rune Christiansen wins award for the best student talk

At the conference of the International Biometric Society in Adelaide, Australia, Rune received the award of the best student talk for his presentation about causal inference on spatio-temporal data.

Snorre Jallbjørn, industrial PhD student

Snorre Jallbjørn enrolled as an industrial PhD student at the department in cooperation with ATP on 1 October 2019. Snorre is part of the Section for Statistics and Probability Theory, and his main supervisor is…

Sebastian Weichwald, postdoc

Since 1 September 2019, Sebastian Weichwald is a postdoctoral researcher with the Copenhagen Causality Lab at the Statistics and Probability Theory Section within the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Gherardo Varando, postdoc at CoCaLa

Gherardo Varando started on August 1st, 2018, as a postdoc at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, working with the Copenhagen Causality Lab.

Lasse Petersen, PhD student at CoCaLa

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.

Rune Christiansen, PhD student at SPT

Rune Christiansen started 1 July 2017 as a PhD under the supervision of Jonas Peters in the research group “Causal Inference with Incomplete Data” – under the section of statistics and probability theory (SPT).

Adam Lund, postdoc at SPT

Adam Lund was employed at the department 1 June 2017. As a researcher in statistics Adam is part of the Section for Statistics and Probability Theory (SPT).

Søren Wengel Mogensen, PhD student at SPT

Søren Wengel Mogensen is employed as a PhD student in the section for Statistics and Probability Theory as of December 1, 2016. He is a part of the research project “Causal inference with incomplete data” headed by Niel…