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.
Ditlevsen was an actor before she became a researcher.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.
In 2012, Ditlevsen became an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.In 2016, Ditlevsen was elected to the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
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.[2] 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).