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Gabriel Niels Damsholt, PhD student

Gabriel started on 1 November 2024 as a PhD student in the Statistics and Probability section with Susanne Ditlevsen as supervisor.

Research dissemination

Livestream about Numbers, coincidences and tipping points

On 5 November 2024, statistician Susanne Ditlevsen will give lectures in cinemas, libraries, public universities, cultural centres, high schools, and schools in cities across the country, including Greenland and the Faroe Islands.

Zhihao Wang, PhD student

Zhihao joined the Statistics and Probability Theory section on October 1st 2024 and began his PhD studies under the supervision of Jun Yang.

Johan Larsson, postdoc

Johan Larsson is employed as a postdoc on a Thiele Data Science Fellowship from 3 September 2024, working in the Statistics and Probability section.

Alex Markham, postdoc

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

Obituary for Inge Henningsen

Emeritus associate professor Inge Henningsen, who died on 5 August 2024 at the age of 83, played a central role in the statistics group at the department and at the former Department of Mathematical Statistics for many years.

Ulrik Thinggaard Hansen, postdoc

Ulrik Thinggaard Hansen started on 15 July 2024 as a postdoc, working with two of the department’s sections; Statistics and Probability as well as Analysis & Quantum.

Still debate about Ditlevsen's AMOC research

One year after Susanne and Peter Ditlevsen demonstrated that the AMOC ocean current could stop this century, the results are still hotly debated among climate scientists and in the press, with new studies pointing in the same direction and other studies that are critical. Various international media are still addressing the issue.

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.

Line Clemmensen, professor

Line Clemmensen joined the department as Professor of Statistics on 1 June 2024. She will be a part of the section on Statistics and Probability Theory.

Susanne Ditlevsen new president of the Royal Academy

Susanne Ditlevsen, professor of statistics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, was elected president of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters for the next four years on Thursday 16 May 2024.

Tagea Brandt's travel grant to Susanne Ditlevsen

Susanne Ditlevsen has received the Tagea Brandt Travel Grant 2024, awarded annually since 1924 to female researchers, writers, artists, musicians or actors.

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.

Klara Leffler, postdoc

Klara Leffler began as a postdoc at the Data Science Lab and the Statistics and Probability Theory section on the 1st of April 2024.

Bo Markussen, professor

Bo Markussen has been appointed Professor of Statistics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences from 1 March 2024.

Laura Helene Rasmussen, postdoc

Laura Helene Rasmussen began as a postdoc at the Data Science Lab and the Statistics and Probability Theory section on the 15th of December 2023.

Luigi Gresele, postdoc

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

Gabriel Damsholt & Siniša Lukić, research assistants

Gabriel and Siniša are hired as part of Susanne Ditlevsen’s research grant project “CUSP”. The project is exploring new methods for statistical inference and identifying causal relationships in large amounts of data from the biology and health areas.

Elisenda Feliu appointed professor

The dean has appointed Elisenda Feliu as professor of mathematics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences from 1 July 2023.

Simon V. Brodersen and William Heuser, research assistants

Simon Vinding Brodersen and William Heuser have started a part-time position at the department to develop a research-focused flexible decision and regression tree implementation under the supervision of Niklas Pfister.

Jinyang Liu, 3+5 PhD student

Jinyang Liu will start as a 3+5 PhD student from 1 September 2023 in the Statistics and Probability Theory Section, with Munir Hiabu as his primary supervisor.

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.

Jun Yang, Tenure Track Assistant Professor

Jun Yang started on 1 July 2023 as a (tenure-track) assistant professor in statistics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

A medal for Thomas Mikosch

Professor Thomas Mikosch has been awarded the Willem van Zwet Medal for Special Service to the Bernoulli Society. The Bernoulli Society is the international organization for probability and mathematical statistics.

Frederik Hindborg Jensen, PhD student

On 1 June 2023, Frederik Hindborg Jensen started as a PhD student in the section for Statistics and Probability Theory. He will continue his research on narwhals.

Cecilie Olesen Recke, PhD student

Cecilie is employed as a PhD fellow from 1 April 2023 in the section for Statistics and Probability Theory and her supervisor will be Niels Richard Hansen.

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 ground-breaking research to be conducted within the centre.

Nidhi Kaihnsa, postdoc

Nidhi Kaihnsa was employed as a postdoc on 15 February 2023 associated with the Section for Statistics and Probability Theory. She will be working with the research group Mathematics of reaction networks (MBIO).

Lars Reiter Nielsen, PhD student

Lars Reiter Nielsen is from 1 November 2022 employed as a PhD student at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, working with the section for Statistics and Probability Theory.

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.

Qingchuan Sun, PhD student

Qingchuan Sun will be working as a PhD student from 1 September 2022 to 31 August 2023, affiliated with the Statistics and Probability Theory section.

Debbie Kusch Falden, postdoc

Debbie Kusch Falden was employed as a postdoc at the Department of Mathematical Sciences 1 August 2022.

Timo Adam, postdoc

Timo Adam started on 1 September 2022 as a postdoc associated with the Statistics and Probability Theory section. He will be working with Susanne Ditlevsen.

Ulises Bercovich, PhD student

Ulises Bercovich is employed as a PhD student in the section for Statistics and Probability Theory, where he will be associated with the research group Mathematical Biology.

Elisenda Feilu receives prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant

The sought-after grant from ERC is given to groundbreaking and excellent research, and this time the honour goes to Elisenda Feliu from MATH.

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.

Frederik Hindborg Jensen, research assistant

Frederik Hindborg Jensen started on 1 March 2022 as a research assistant in the section for Statistics and Probability Theory under Susanne Ditlevsen.

Jonas Gyde Hermansen, PhD student

Jonas Gyde Hermansen started 1 January 2022 as a PhD student at the department’s section for Statistics and Probability Theory under the supervision of Professor Susanne Ditlevsen and Professor Helle Sørensen.

Christian Holberg, PhD student

Christian Holberg is employed as a PhD student in the section for Statistics and Probability Theory from 1 January 2022.

Oskar Henriksson, PhD student

Oskar Henriksson is employed as a PhD student at the department from 1 January 2022. He will be working with two of the department’s sections, both Algebra & Geometry and the section for Statistics and Probability Theory.

After thousands of years, an iconic whale confronts a new enemy

The iconic tusked whale of the Arctic has a new enemy – noise. A unique study from the University of Copenhagen and the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources shows that narwhals are highly affected by noise from ships and seismic airgun pulses – even at 20-30 kilometers away. As ice melts, noise levels in the Arctic are rising, worrying scientists about the future of narwhals.

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.

Susanne Ditlevsen Vice President of the Royal Academy

Susanne Ditlevsen has been elected vice president of The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and class chair of the natural sciences class.

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.

Munir Hiabu, assistant professor

Munir Hiabu joined the department 1 September 2021 as tenure-track Assistant Professor in Data Science and Actuarial Mathematics, working in the Insurance and Economics section.

Floriane Cornué, Research Assistant

Floriane Cornué will be working as an intern for 3.5 months with Professor Susanne Ditlevsen and the Statistic and Probability section.

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.

Matthieu Bulté, PhD student

Matthieu Bulté is employed as a PhD student from September 1st 2021, affiliated with the Statistics and Probability section.

International Postdoctoral Grant to three young mathematicians

The Independent Research Fund Denmark makes it possible for three researchers, educated at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, to do research on arithmetic statistics in Paris, graphs and operator algebra in Glasgow, as well as control systems at a particle accelerator in Lund.

artificial intelligence

Algorithm reveals the mysterious foraging habits of narwhals

An algorithm can predict when narwhals hunt – a task once nearly impossible to gain insight into. Mathematicians and computer scientists at the University of Copenhagen, together with marine biologists in Greenland, have made progress in gathering knowledge about this enigmatic Arctic whale at a time when climate change is pressuring them.

New research project combines social and mathematical sciences

How do past life events affect the future life trajectory of Danish individuals? That is the theme for a cross-disciplinary project awarded a DATA+ grant from the University of Copenhagen.

Identification of relaxation oscillations - NNF grant to Elisenda Feliu

The Novo Nordisk Fonden supports Elisenda Feliu’s research in relaxation oscillations in biochemical reaction networks with DKK 1.3 million for the next two years.

Máté Telek, PhD student

Máté Telek is employed as a PhD student on 1 April 2021, working with the Algebra & Geometry Section and the Section for Statistics and Probability Theory.

Jonas Peters to receive new Leadership Award

The award has been created by COPSS, which is a committee of the presidents of the North American Statistical Societies, including the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

Magdalena Musat, professor of Mathematics

The Dean has appointed Magdalena Musat as Professor of Mathematics at the Department for Mathematical Sciences from 1 December 2020.

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 relationships in large amounts of data from the biology and health areas.

Panqiu Xia, postdoc

Panqiu Xia started as a postdoc 1 October 2020 in the section for Statistics and Probability Theory. He will work with the research group Mathematical Biology.

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.

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 Pfister.

Malte Nielsen wins the 2019 Edlund-DMF Thesis Prize

A thesis on statistical problems in DNA identification has been assessed by the Danish Mathematical Society as the country's best thesis submitted in 2019. On 11 September [POSTPONED!], Malte Bødkergaard Nielsen will be presented with the Edlund-DMF Thesis Prize of DKK 15,000.

Jan van Waaij, postdoc

On 1 July 2020, Jan started in a position as a postdoc at the Department of Mathematical Sciences. He is a member of the section for Statistics and Probability Theory.

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.

Psychology & Statistics

How long can a monkey multitask?

Statistics and psychology researchers from the University of Copenhagen have worked with Oxford University researchers on a small study to see what happens to nerve cells in monkey brains when monkeys are presented with varying numbers of images at once. How long can monkeys multitask?

Three new mathematical research projects are launched with DFF support

The Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) supports this year three researchers from the Department of Mathematical Sciences with grants of between two and 2.9 million DKK.

MATH in the media

Susanne Ditlevsen in the media about corona statistics

On 14 April 2020, the newspaper website Berlingske.dk brought an interview with Susanne Ditlevsen, professor of statistics, in which she repeated her call to conduct randomized tests of a wide sample of the population. Otherwise, authorities will grope in blind if another wave of corona virus strikes later in the year, she believes.

New research project about statistical inference

The Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) supports the development of new robust statistical methods for analyzing large and complex volumes of data. Professor Susanne Ditlevsen is to lead the four-year research project.

Novo Nordisk supports research in mathematical biology

Mathematical tools and methods can lead to breakthroughs in medical research. That’s recognized in the Novo Nordisk Foundation, who is funding another research project at the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Five new Marie Curie Fellows

The Department has been awarded five of the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowships. Congratulations to the five postdoc fellows and their mentors.

Inaugural lectures by Jonas Peters and Karim Adiprasito

Jonas Peters, Professor of Statistics, and Karim Adiprasito, Professor of Mathematics, will give their inaugural lectures Friday 24 January 2020 at 13:30 followed by a reception.

Angélica Torres, postdoc

Angélica was employed as a postdoc researcher on the 1^st of December 2019 at the department’s research group Mathematics of reaction networks (MBIO).

Laura Brustenga i Moncusí, postdoc

Laura is employed at the department as a postdoc from January 1st 2020. She will be affiliated with the research group Mathematics of reaction networks (MBIO).

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 different categories in climate research.

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.

Song Li, PhD student

Song Li was employed as a PhD student at the Department of Mathematical Sciences 1 Nov. 2019. Song is part of the section for Statistics and Probability Theory, and his main supervisor is Professor Carsten Wiuf.

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 Professor Niels Richard Hansen.

Huixia Wang, PhD student

Huixia Wang is employed as a PhD student from 1 September 2019, associated with the section for Statistics and Probability Theory, under the supervision of Carsten Wiuf and Anders Albrechtsen.

MATH and old bones

Mathematicians chart human prehistory

Mathematicians, statisticians and bioinformatics from the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus are developing tools to make DNA discoveries even more useful in mapping human prehistory. Professor Carsten Wiuf from the Department of Mathematical Sciences is leading the project.

Nidhi Kaihnsa, postdoc at MBIO

Nidhi Kaihnsa was employed as postdoc 1 September 2019 associated with the Section for Statistics and Probability Theory. She will be working with the research group Mathematics of reaction networks (MBIO) and Elisenda Feliu.

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.

Linard Hoessly, postdoc

Linard Hoessly is employed as a postdoc at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, associated with the Section for Statistics and Probability Theory.

Nikolaj Thams, PhD student

Nikolaj Thams is employed as a PhD-student at the department from the 1st of September 2019. He is associated with the Section for Statistics and Probability Theory. His supervisor will be Prof. Jonas Peters.

Yijing Li, PhD student

Yijing Li is employed as Marie Curie PhD Fellow at the Department of Mathematical Sciences from 1 Sep 2019, associated with the section for Statistics and Probability Theory. She will work with the research group Mathematics of reaction networks (MBIO).

Phillip Bredahl Mogensen, PhD student

Phillip is employed as a PhD student from 15 August 2019, associated with the section for Statistics and Probability Theory, under the supervision of Bo Markussen, Helle Sørensen and Shyam Gopalakrishnan.

MATH in the media

Statistics - the scalpel of science

Lone Frank's science magazine on Radio24syv, "24 Questions for the Professor", has been visited by Susanne Ditlevsen, professor of statistics from the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Line Kühnel, industrial postdoc

Line Kühnel started in April 2019 as an industrial postdoc at the Department of Mathematical Sciences in collaboration with Lundbeck A/S. She is a member of the Statistics and Probability section.

Jonas Peters, Professor of Statistics

The Dean has appointed Jonas Peters as Professor of Statistics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences from 1 July 2019.

Robyn Stuart, assistant professor

Robyn Stuart was 1 May 2019 employed as a tenure track assistant professor at the department. She works in the section for Statistics and Probability Theory.

AmirHosein Sadeghimanesh, postdoc at MBIO

The department has employed AmirHosein Sadeghimanesh as a postdoc from 1 May 2019. He will be working in the research group Mathematics of Reaction Networks (MBIO), within the Statistics and Probability Theory Section.

Aleksander Søltoft-Jensen, scientific assistant in SPT

Aleksander Søltoft-Jensen is from 1 March 2019 employed as a research assistant at the section Statistics and Probability Theory.

Beatriz Pascual Escudero, postdoc at MBIO

Beatriz Pascual Escudero is employed at the department as a postdoc from March 1st 2019. She is affiliated with the research groups Algebra & Number Theory and Mathematics of reaction networks (MBIO).

Marie Levakova, postdoc in statistics

Marie Levakova started on February 1st 2019 as a postdoc in the Section of Statistics and Probability Theory. She will be mentored by Susanne Ditlevsen.

Bronze Medal to Jonas Peters from the Royal Statistical Society

Jonas Peters has been awarded The Guy Medal in Bronze from the Royal Statistical Society. He will be presented with the award at a ceremony during RSS’s annual conference in Belfast in September.

Understanding Pseudomonas Aeruginosa

Elisenda Feliu, associate professor in mathematics, receives a 1.3 million DKK research grant for the project “Understanding bistability underlying acute and chronic infections in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa“.

SCIENCE Dissemination Award 2018:

SCIENCE Dissemination Award to Therese Graversen

35-year-old assistant professor and statistician Therese Graversen of the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Mathematical Sciences has won the SCIENCE Dissemination Award 2018 presented by UCPH’s Faculty of Science. Graversen is being presented the award for widely communicating results about the use of DNA traces in criminal investigSCIENCE Dissemination Award 2018:ations in a readily understood and solidly scientific way.

New study programme in Machine Learning and Data Science

The Department of Mathematical Sciences and the Department of Computer Science are behind new bachelor's programme, which has just been approved by Tommy Ahlers, Minister of Education and Research.

Inaugural lectures by Mogens Bladt and Mathias Drton

Mogens Bladt, professor of applied probability and insurance mathematics, and Mathias Drton, professor of statistics, will give their inaugural lectures Friday 2 November 2018 at 14:00 followed by a reception.

Martin Emil Jakobsen, PhD student at SPT

Martin Emil Jakobsen has been employed as a PhD student at the Department of Mathematical Sciences since 1 August 2018. Martin has joined the Section for Statistics and Probability Theory.

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.

Chuang Xu, postdoc at MBIO

Chuang Xu started July 1'st, 2018, as a postdoc at our department in the Section for Statistics and Probability Theory.

Statistician behind research in narwhal’s clicks, calls and buzzing

Researchers from the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources have received extremely detailed data about a group of narwhal’s sounds. Professor Susanne Ditlevsen from the Department of Mathematical Sciences performed statistical analyzes for the research team.

Teacher of the year at SCIENCE: A formula for causality and coincidence

34-year old Jonas Peters, associate professor of statistics, from Department of Mathematical Sciences is a great inspiration to his students, and therefore, and in spite of the fact that the young talented researcher has been employed at UCPH for less than two years, he has been chosen among 19 nominees as the winner of this year’s Teacher of the Year at SCIENCE award.

MATH in the media

Justice on Formula

The newspaper Weekendavisen had an article on forensic genetics on the front page of their science section 18 May 2018. The article is centred around statistician Therese Graversen from the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

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.

Mathias Drton, professor of statistics

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.

DFF funds research in mathematical population genetics

Carsten Wiuf, professor in statistics at Department of Mathematical Sciences, has received a research grant of DKK 5,4 million from the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Hans Brøns obituary

Professor Hans Brøns contributed crucially to the establishment of the statistics study programme at the University of Copenhagen and to the development of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, which today forms one of the four sections of the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Helle Sørensen has been called for a professorship at MATH

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.

Maria Laura Battagliola, PhD student at SPT

Maria Laura was employed as a PhD student in the Statistics and Probability Theory group from 15 December 2017. Her PhD project is called “Quantile regression for longitudinal functional data”.

He will tackle the impossible: learning causality from data

Jonas Peters, Associate Professor in Statistics from the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, has received 8.2 million DKK from VILLUM Young Investigator Program. It will enable him to form a small group to do research on "Causal Learning in Real World Applications”.

Jacob Østergaard, postdoc at SPT

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

Jonas Peters receives research grant from Carlsberg Foundation

“Learning by doing: How to adapt to changing environments” is the title on Jonas Peters’ research project, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation Distinguished Associate Professor Fellowship.

The Gates Foundation support health and math project

Postdoc researcher Robyn Stuart, from the Statistics and Probability Theory group at Department of Mathematical Sciences, receives funding for a 15 month health and math project on modeling "care cascades”.

Martin Helmer, postdoc at SPT

Martin Helmer started 1 September 2017 as a postdoc at the Department, affiliated with the Section for Statistics and Probability Theory (SPT). His postdoc-mentor is Elisenda Feliu.

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).

Angélica Torres, PhD student at MBIO

Angélica Torres has started at the Department of Mathematical Sciences as a PhD student associated with the research group Mathematics of Reaction Networks (MBIO). Her supervisor is Elisenda Feliu.

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 Niels Richard Hansen.

Professor Steffen Lauritzen has received the Humboldt Prize

The Humboldt Research Award has been granted to Professor Steffen Lauritzen, professor in statistics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, in recognition of his past accomplishments in research and teaching.

Jonas Peters, associate professor in Statistics

Jonas Peters is employed as associate professor from 17 August 2016. He will be affiliated with the research group Statistics and Probability Theory.

Nordstat poster prize

Frederik Riis Mikkelsen, a PhD student at MATH, won honors and prizes in a poster competition at the conference Nordstat 2016.

Mads Bonde Raad, PhD student

Mads Bonde Raad is employed as a PhD in the Statistics and Probability group, and will work at the research group Dynamical Systems Interdisciplinary Network.

Julie Thøgersen, visiting PhD student

Julie Thøgersen is a PhD student from Aarhus University, studying Mathematics and Economics. She will be visiting our department the rest of 2016.

Kang Li wins poster award

PhD student Kang Li won last week an award for best poster at a conference on mathematical neuroscience.

DFF-grant for DNA detective

Therese Graversen is not the first statistician to receive a postdoc grant from the Danish Council for Independent Research. But she may be the first to receive the grant from the council of Technology and Production Sciences.

Nina Munkholt Jakobsen, postdoc

As of 1 March 2016, Nina Munkholt Jakobsen is employed in a 3-year postdoc position in the Laboratory for Applied Statistics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Teacher of the year makes the abstract concrete

What is the probability of receiving University of Copenhagen’s teaching award 'Harald of the Year'? This year's recipient should be able to answer. He researches and teaches in probability theory.

Danish Statistician honoured by Oxford

Therese Graversen from the Department of Mathematical Sciences has received a medal from the University of Oxford for her outstanding PhD thesis about systematic treatment of DNA analyses.

Mads Christian Hansen, new PhD student

Bob Pepin, visiting PhD student

Catalina Vich, guest PhD student

Catalina Vich will be working with the research group Statistics and Probability Theory until the end of January 2016, collaborating with Professor Susanne Ditlevsen.

MATH professor in controversy about sea level rise

The science-site Videnskab.dk brought 9.22 an article about the discussions between state geologist Jens Morten Hansen and a number of other researchers whether the moon - not global warming - is causing the sea levels rise.

Abhishek Pal Majumder, new postdoc

Mathematician admitted to The Young Academy

The Young Academy, created by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, has just admitted nine new members, all of which are excellent, young researchers within their field of study. One of these is Elisenda Feliu, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

Janne Kool, postdoc

Visiting professor

Professor Adeline Samson visits MATH

The Velux Fonden Visiting Professor Programme has made it possible for the Department of Mathematical Sciences to invite Professor Adeline Samson to visit the department for a period of 6 month, from 15 April to 14 October 2015.

Samuele Soraggi, PhD student

Samuele Soraggi is hired as a PhD student from February 2015. He will be involved in the project "The Genomic History of Denmark", and here on MATH affiliated with the research group Statistics and Probability Theory.

Robyn Stuart, postdoc

Mareile Große Ruse, PhD student

Jacob Østergaard, PhD student

Frederik Riis Mikkelsen, PhD student

Michael Marcondes de Freitas, postdoc

Meritxell Sáez, postdoc

Therese Graversen, postdoc

Adam Lund, PhD student