MSc in mathematics in 1999 from la Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain. MSc in statistics in 2000 from Department of Mathematical Sciences and PhD in biostatistics in 2005 from Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen. Project-financed statistician 2000-2001, PhD student 2001-2004, Assistant Professor 2004-2007 and Associate Professor from February 2007 at the same place. In September 2007 I moved to the Department of Mathematical Sciences, as full professor from July 2011.
I participate in Copenhagen Statistics Network and the EU research training network Statistical Methods for Dynamical Stochastic Models.
The meeting will be held in Copenhagen, April 11, 2012.
Statistik 2 (Bachelor level. Spring 2012, block 4).
Discrete models (Graduate level. Fall 2011, block 1).
Stochastic Models in Biology (Master level. Fall 2010, block 1).
Statistical methods for diffusion models (Master level. Spring 2010, block 3) .
Stochastic Processes (Bachelor level. Spring 2009, block 4).
Modeling of physiological systems (Medicine & Technology), autumn 2009.
Summer School on Stochastic Differential Equation Models with Applications to the Insulin-Glucose System and Neuronal Modelling, Middelfart, Denmark, August 3-16, 2008. It is part of a series of events on Mathematical Modeling of Human Physiological Systems with Biomedical Applications , 2007-2010.
Material from the meeting in Statistical Methods in Climate Research, April 24, 2008.
Enrico Bibbona and Susanne Ditlevsen (2011): Estimation in discretely observed Markov processes killed at a threshold. Preprint at arXiv.org.
Eva Garde, Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen, Susanne Ditlevsen and Steen H. Hansen (2012): Aspartic acid racemization rate in narwhal (Monodon monoceros) eye lens nuclei estimated by counting of growth layers in tusks. To appear in Polar Research.
Umberto Picchini and Susanne Ditlevsen: Practical Estimation of High Dimensional Stochastic Differential Mixed-Effects Models. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 55: 1426-1444, 2011.
Patrick Jahn, Rune W. Berg, Jørn Hounsgaard and Susanne Ditlevsen: Motoneuron Membrane Potentials Follow a Time Inhomogeneous Jump Diffusion Process. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 31: 563-579, 2011.
Susanne Ditlevsen and Petr Lansky: Firing variability is higher than deduced from the empirical coefficient of variation. Neural Computation, 23(8): 1944-1966, 2011.
Umberto Picchini, Andrea De Gaetano and Susanne Ditlevsen: Stochastic Differential Mixed-Effects Models. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 37(1): 67-90, 2010. See also correction in the same issue, page 176.
Susanne Ditlevsen and Adeline Samson (2012): Introduction to stochastic models in biology. In Bachar, Batzel and Ditlevsen (Eds.), Stochastic Biomathematical Models with Applications to Neuronal Modeling. To appear as Volume 2058 of the Lecture Notes in Mathematics series (Biosciences subseries), Springer.
Pasquale Palumbo, Susanne Ditlevsen, Alessandro Bertuzzi and Andrea De Gaetano (2011): Mathematical modeling of the glucose-insulin system. Submitted.
Lene Theil Skovgaard and Susanne Ditlevsen: Estimation of the coefficient of variation. Submitted.
Susanne Ditlevsen, Donald Marsh and Niels-Henrik Holstein-Rathlou (2010): Mathematical modeling of the Tubuloglomerular Feedback mechanism in the kidney. Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS). Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO. Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK.
Birgitte Lindegaard, Susanne Ditlevsen, Peter Plomgaard, Bettina Mittendorfer, Bente K Pedersen: The role of free fatty acids in the regulation of systemic inflammation - evidence from an intervention study with acipimox and insulin. Submitted.
Petr Lansky and Susanne Ditlevsen: A review of the methods for signal estimation in stochastic diffusion leaky integrate-and-fire neuronal models. Biological Cybernetics, 99: 253-262, 2008.
Umberto Picchini, Susanne Ditlevsen, Andrea De Gaetano and Petr Lansky: Parameters of the diffusion leaky integrate-and-fire neuronal model for a slowly fluctuating signal. Neural Computation, 20: 2696-2714, 2008.
Rune W. Berg, Susanne Ditlevsen and Jorn Hounsgaard (2008): Intense Synaptic Activity Enhances Temporal Resolution in Spinal Motoneurons. PLoS ONE, 3(9): e3218. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003218
B. Lindegaard, T. Hansen, T. Hvid, G. van Hall, P. Plomgaard, S. Ditlevsen, J. Gerstoft, and B. K. Pedersen: The effect of strength and endurance training on insulin sensitivity and fat distribution in HIV-infected patients with lipodystrophy. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 93(10): 3860-3869, 2008.
Umberto Picchini, Susanne Ditlevsen and Andrea De Gaetano: Maximum likelihood estimation of a time-inhomogeneous stochastic differential model of glucose dynamics. Mathematical Medicine & Biology, 25: 141-155, 2008.
Susanne Ditlevsen and Petr Lansky: Comparison of statistical methods for estimation of the input parameters in the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck neuronal model from first-passage times data. In American Institute of Physics Proceedings Series, CP1028, Collective Dynamics: Topics on Competition and Cooperation in the Biosciences, Eds.: L.M. Ricciardi, A. Buonocore, and E. Pirozzi. 2008.
Susanne Ditlevsen and Ove Ditlevsen: Parameter estimation from observations of first-passage times of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and the Feller process. Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 23: 170-179, 2008.
Susanne Ditlevsen and Petr Lansky: Parameters of stochastic diffusion processes estimated from observations of first hitting-times: application to the leaky integrate-and-fire neuronal model. Physical Review E, 76, 041906, 2007. Selected for Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, October 15, 2007.
Susanne Ditlevsen, Kay-Pong Yip, Donald J. Marsh and Niels-Henrik Holstein-Rathlou: Parameter estimation of the feedback gain in a stochastic model of renal hemodynamics: differences between spontaneously hypertensive rats and Sprague-Dawley rats. American Journal of Physiology. Renal Physiology, 292: 607-616, 2007 .
Susanne Ditlevsen: A result on the first-passage time of an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. Statistics and Probability Letters, 77: 1744-1749, 2007 .
Birgitte Lindegaard, Christian Frosig, Anne Marie W Petersen, Peter Plomgaard, Susanne Ditlevsen, Bettina Mittendorfer, Gerrit Van Hall, Jorgen F Wojtaszewski, Bente K Pedersen: Inhibition of Lipolysis Stimulates Peripheral Glucose Uptake but has no effect on Endogenous Glucose Production in HIV Lipodystrophy. Diabetes, 56(8): 2070--2077, 2007.
K. D. Farnsworth, U. H. Thygesen, S. Ditlevsen, and N. J. King: How to estimate scavenger fish abundance using baited camera data. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 350: 223-234, 2007 .
Susanne Ditlevsen and Petr Lansky: Estimation of the input parameters in the Feller neuronal model. Physical Review E, 73, 061910, 2006.
Umberto Picchini, Susanne Ditlevsen and Andrea De Gaetano: Modeling the euglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamp by stochastic differential equations . Journal of Mathematical Biology, 53(5): 771-796, 2006 .
Susanne Ditlevsen and Andrea De Gaetano: Mixed effects in stochastic differential equation models. REVSTAT Statistical Journal, 3: 137-153, 2005.
Susanne Ditlevsen and Petr Lansky: Estimation of the input parameters in the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck neuronal model. Physical Review E, 71, 011907, 2005. Selected for Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, February 1, 2005.
Susanne Ditlevsen and Andrea De Gaetano: Stochastic vs. deterministic uptake of dodecanedioic acid by isolated rat livers. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 67: 547-561, 2005.
Susanne Ditlevsen, Kay-Pong Yip and Niels-Henrik Holstein-Rathlou: Parameter estimation in a stochastic model of the tubuloglomerular feedback mechanism in a rat nephron. Mathematical Biosciences, 194: 49-69, 2005.
Umberto Picchini, Andrea De Gaetano, Simona Panunzi, Susanne Ditlevsen and Geltrude Mingrone: A mathematical model of the euglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamp. Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, 2:44, 2005.
Susanne Ditlevsen, Ulla Christensen, John Lynch, Mogens Trab Damsgaard and Niels Keiding: The Mediation Proportion: A Structural Equation Approach for estimating the proportion of exposure effect on outcome explained by an intermediate variable. Epidemiology, 16(1): 114-120, January 2005.
Susanne Ditlevsen and Michael Sørensen: Inference for observations of integrated diffusion processes. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 31(3): 417-429, 2004.
Ulla Christensen, Rikke Lund, Mogens Trab Damsgaard, Bjørn E. Holstein, Susanne Ditlevsen, Finn Diderichsen, Pernille Due, Lars Iversen, John Lynch: Cynical Hostility, socioeconomic position, health behaviours and symptom load: a cross-sectional analysis in a Danish population-based study. Psychosomatic Medicine 66: 572-577, 2004.
Klaus Witt, Erik Knudsen, Susanne Ditlevsen and Hanne Hollnagel: Academic detailing has no effect on prescribing of asthma medication in Danish general practice: A three-year randomized controlled trial with 12 monthly follow-ups. Family Practice 2004, 21(3): 248-253, 2004.
Peter D. Ditlevsen, Susanne Ditlevsen and Katrine K. Andersen: The fast climate fluctuations during the stadial and interstadial climate states. Annals of Glaciology, Volume 35, 457-462, 2002.
Susanne Ditlevsen, Ulla Christensen, John Lynch, Mogens Trab Damsgaard and Niels Keiding: Mediation Proportion. To the Editor. Epidemiology, 16(4), July 2005.
Susanne Ditlevsen and Ove Ditlevsen (2006): Parameter estimation from observations of first-passage times of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and the Feller process. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computational Stochastic Mechanics, Rhodes, Greece, 21--23 June 2006.
Susanne Ditlevsen and Andrea De Gaetano (2004): A model of the uptake of alternative fatty acids by isolated rat liver based on stochastic differential equations. In Extended abstracts from the Workshop on Dynamical Stochastic Modeling in Biology, eds. Marianne Huebner and Michael Sørensen, Miscellanea, no. 26, 2004, MaPhySto, Denmark.
Title: Modeling of physiological processes by stochastic differential equations.
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| 2009-2013 | Female Research Leader Award of the Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural Sciences (5.760.000 DKK) |
| 2009-2011 | Danish Natural Science Research Council (300.000 DKK) |
| 2009-2010 | Villum Kann Rasmussen Foundation. VELUX Visiting Professor Programme (290.000 DKK) |
| 2008 | Part of grant from Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses under the EU Sixth Framework Programme (115.102 €) |
| 2005-2007 | Danish Medical Reasearch Council (1.298.952 DKK) |
| 2005-2007 | Lundbeck Foundation (450.000 DKK) |
| 2011 | Statistics Seminar, Lund University, Sweden. | The stochastic Morris-Lecar neuron model embeds a one-dimensional diffusion and its first-passage-time crossings. |
| 2011 | Oberwolfach Seminar, Oberwolfach, Germany. | Statistics for Stochastic Differential Equations. |
| 2011 | 3rd G-Node Winter Course in Neural Data Analysis, Munich, Germany. | Statistical analysis of interval and count variability in spike trains. |
| 2010 | 28th European Meeting of Statisticians, Piraeus, Greece. | The stochastic Morris-Lecar neuron model embeds a one-dimensional diffusion and its first-passage-time crossings. |
| 2010 | Sommertræf for kandidatstuderende i matematik, Dansk Matematisk Forening, Holbæk. | Stochastic neuron models. |
| 2010 | Joint SIAM/RSME-SCM-SEMA Meeting. Emerging Topics in Dynamical Systems and Partial Differential Equations, Barcelona, Spain. | Estimation of network activity and modeling of Membrane Potentials in Motoneurons. |
| 2010 | Seminar at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. | The Morris-Lecar neuron model embeds the leaky integrate-and-fire model. |
| 2010 | Seminar at Durham University, UK. | The Morris-Lecar neuron model embeds the leaky integrate-and-fire model. |
| 2010 | Workshop on Molecular Motors, Neuron Models, and Epidemics on Networks at SAMSI, North Carolina. | The Morris Lecar neuron model gives rise to the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck leaky integrate-and- fire model. |
| 2010 | Stochastic Models in Neuroscience. Workshop at CIRM, Marseille, France. | The Morris Lecar neuron model gives rise to the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck leaky integrate-and- fire model. |
| 2009 | Danish Mathematical Society. Annual Meeting. | Stochastic neuron models. |
| 2009 | Parameter estimation in physiological models. Euro Summer School Lipari, Italy. | Parameter Estimation for Stochastic Differential Equations. |
| 2009 | Joint Conference of the Society for Mathematical Biology and the Chinese Society for Mathematical Biology, Hangzhou, China. | Modeling the euglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamp by stochastic differential equations. |
| 2009 | RUC-Modeldag. Matematiske Modeller i Diabetes. | Modeling the euglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamp by stochastic differential equations. |
| 2008 | EPSRC Symposium Workshop on Computational Neuroscience, Mathematics Research Centre, University of Warwick, UK. | Simple stochastic neuronal models and their parameters. |
| 2008 | Warwick Systems Biology Centre, Warwick University, UK. | Stochastic differential equation models in physiology. |
| 2008 | 7th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Singapore. | Inference in diffusion models from observations of first hitting-times. |
| 2008 | Applications of spatio-temporal dynamical systems in biology (workshop), Nice, France. | Parameter estimation in a stochastic model of the tubuloglomerular feedback mechanism in a rat nephron. |
| 2008 | International Biomedical modeling school and workshop, Bangalore, India. | Stochastic models. What & Why. |
| 2007 | Rhein Main Kolloquium Stochastik, Mainz, Germany. | Inference in stochastic neuronal models. |
| 2007 | University of Maine, USA. | Parameters of stochastic diffusion processes estimated from observations of first hitting-times: application to the leaky integrate-and-fire neuronal model. |
| 2007 | Gymnasieklasse fra Sønderjylland. | Hvad kan man bruge matematik til? |
| 2006 | Structural Reliability and Stochastic Mechanics - Past, Present, and Future. Symposium in honor of Ove Ditlevsen. DTU, Lyngby. | Next generation: Stochastic differential equation models in biology. |
| 2006 | Sarajevo Summer School: Mathematical Techniques in Modeling Physiological Systems. | Case for Mathematical Modeling in Physiology. |
| 2006 | Regionalmøde for gymnasielærere i matematik i Ribe og Sønderjyllands amter, Esbjerg. | Biostatistik og modellering af fysiologiske processer. |
| 2006 | Todagesmøde, Dansk Selskab for Teoretisk Statistik, Copenhagen. | Stochastic differential equation models in physiology. |
| 2006 | SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences, Raleigh, North Carolina. | A stochastic model of the tubuloglomerular feedback mechanism in a rat nephron. |
| 2005 | IMFUFA, Roskilde Universitetscenter. | Stokastiske modeller i biologi. |
| 2005 | Årsmøde for gymnasielærere i matematik, fysik og kemi, Odense. Gentaget på regionalmødet for fynske matematiklærere, Odense. | Biostatistik og modellering af fysiologiske processer. |
| 2005 | CNR IASI, Rome, Italy. | Application of stochastic differential equations in physiology. |
| 2005 | La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. | Application of stochastic differential equations in physiology: The tubuloglomerular feedback mechanism. |
| 2005 | University of Copenhagen. | Parameter estimation in a stochastic model of the tubuloglomerular feedback mechanism in a rat nephron: differences between spontaneously hypertensive rats and Sprague-Dawley rats. |
| 2005 | University of Lund, Sweden. | The tubuloglomerular feedback mechanism in a rat nephron. |
| 2004 | MaPhySto (Centre for Mathematical Physics and Stochastics), University of Aarhus. | Applications of stochastic differential equations in physiology and geophysics. |
| 2004 | Epidemiologisk-Statistisk Seminar, Forskerskolerne i Folkesundhedsvidenskab og Biostatistik, University of Copenhagen. | Estimating the mediation proportion - the use of structural equation models. |
| 2004 | Arbejdsmiljøinstituttet, Copenhagen. | Estimating the proportion of exposure effect on outcome explained by an intermediate variable. |
| 2003 | Dynamical Stochastic Modeling in Biology (workshop), University of Copenhagen. | A model of the uptake of alternative fatty acids by isolated rat liver based on stochastic differential equations. |
| 2009 | Videnskab.dk |
| 2009 | Det Frie Forskningsråd, pressemeddelelse |
| 2005 | Femina |
| 2005 | Ugeskrift for læger |
| 2005 | Universitetsavisen |
Susanne Ditlevsen
University of Copenhagen
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Universitetsparken 5
DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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e-mail susanne@math.ku.dk