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 am head of the Dynamical Systems Interdisciplinary Network, University of Copenhagen, and I am part of Laboratory for Applied Statistics. I participate in Copenhagen Statistics Network and the EU research training network Statistical Methods for Dynamical Stochastic Models.
Hidden Markov Models (Master level. Fall 2013, blok 2) .
Statistik 2 (Bachelor level. Spring 2013, blok 4).
Discrete models (Graduate level. Fall 2011, blok 1).
Stochastic Models in Biology (Master level. Fall 2010, blok 1).
Statistical methods for diffusion models (Master level. Spring 2010, blok 3) .
Stochastic Processes (Bachelor level. Spring 2009, blok 4).
Modeling of physiological systems (Medicine & Technology), autumn 2009.
Probabilistic structures of the brain. Universite de Cergy-Pontoise, France, December 13-14, 2012.
Copenhagen, April 11, 2012.
Oberwolfach Seminars: Statistics for Stochastic Differential Equations, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, October 16-22, 2011. Organisers: Susanne Ditlevsen (Copenhagen), Jean Jacod (Paris), Markus Reiss (Berlin) and Michael Sørensen (Copenhagen).
Dynamic Statistical Models, ISI-satellite meeting, Copenhagen, August 17-19, 2011. As a satellite meeting for the 58th ISI meeting in Dublin 2011 the University of Copenhagen organizes this meeting on Dynamic Statistical Models in the framework of the Statistics Program of Excellence; Statistical methods for complex and high dimensional models.
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.
29th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 17-21, 2008 (scientific committee).
Material from the meeting in Statistical Methods in Climate Research, April 24, 2008.
Susanne Ditlevsen and Adeline Samson (2012): Parameter estimation in neuronal models with particle filter methods. Submitted. Preprint at arXiv.org.
Lene Theil Skovgaard and Susanne Ditlevsen: Estimation of the coefficient of variation. Submitted.
Alexandre Iolov, Susanne Ditlevsen and Andre Longtin (2013): Fokker-Planck and Fortet equation-based parameter estimation for a leaky integrate-and-fire model with sinusoidal and stochastic forcing. To appear in Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience.
Pasquale Palumbo, Susanne Ditlevsen, Alessandro Bertuzzi and Andrea De Gaetano (2013): Mathematical modeling of the glucose-insulin system. To appear in Mathematical Biosciences.
Rune Berg and Susanne Ditlevsen (2013): Synaptic inhibition and excitation estimated via the time constant of membrane potential fluctuations. To appear in Journal of Neurophysiology.
Susanne Ditlevsen and Priscilla Greenwood (2013): The Morris-Lecar neuron model embeds a leaky integrate-and-fire model. Online, to appear in Journal of Mathematical Biology.
Birgitte Lindegaard, Vance Matthews, Claus Brandt, Pernille Hojman, Tamara Allen, Matthew Watt, Emma Estevez, Clinton Bruce, Ole Mortensen, Sisse Syberg, Henriette Pilegaard, Caroline Rudnicka, Juan Hildago, Susanne Ditlevsen, Thomas Algreen, A Madsen, Bente Pedersen, Mark Febbraio (2013): Interleukin-18 activates skeletal muscle AMPK and reduces weight gain and insulin resistance in mice. To appear in Diabetes.
Birgitte Lindegaard, Susanne Ditlevsen, Peter Plomgaard, Bettina Mittendorfer, Bente K Pedersen: Acute reduction of lipolysis reduces adiponectin and IL-18 - evidence from an intervention study with acipimox and insulin (2013). To appear in Diabetologia.
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.
Enrico Bibbona and Susanne Ditlevsen: Estimation in discretely observed Markov processes killed at a threshold. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 40(2), 274-293,2013.
Massimiliano Tamborrino, Susanne Ditlevsen and Petr Lansky: Parametric inference of neuronal response latency in presence of a background signal. BioSystems, 112, 249-257, 2013.
Susanne Ditlevsen and Adeline Samson: Introduction to stochastic models in biology. In Bachar, Batzel and Ditlevsen (Eds.), Stochastic Biomathematical Models with Applications to Neuronal Modeling. Volume 2058 of the Lecture Notes in Mathematics series (Biosciences subseries), Springer, 2013.
Nynne H. Nielsen, Eva Garde, Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen, Christina
H. Lockyer, Susanne Ditlevsen, Droplaug Olafsdottir and Steen
H. Hansen:
Application of a novel method for age estimation of a baleen whale and
a porpoise.
Marine Mammal Science, 29(2), E1-E23, 2013.
Susanne Ditlevsen and Petr Lansky:
Only through
perturbation can relaxation
times be estimated. Physical
Review E, Rapid Communications, 86, 050102(R), 2012.
Massimiliano Tamborrino, Susanne Ditlevsen and Petr Lansky:
Identification
of noisy response latency. Physical
Review E, 86, 021128, 2012.
Anders Chr. Jensen, Susanne Ditlevsen, Mathieu Kessler and Omiros
Papaspiliopoulos:
A Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach to parameter estimation in the
FitzHugh-Nagumo model. Physical
Review E, 86, 041114, 2012.
Eva Garde, Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen, Susanne Ditlevsen and Steen
H. Hansen:
Aspartic acid racemization
rate in narwhal
(Monodon monoceros) eye lens nuclei estimated by counting of growth layers
in tusks.
Polar Research 2012, 31, 15865.
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.
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:
Intense Synaptic Activity Enhances Temporal Resolution in Spinal
Motoneurons. PLoS ONE,
3(9): e3218. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003218, 2008.
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 Helle Sørensen (2010): En Introduktion til
Statistik. Lecture notes.
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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I am associate editor for
Scandinavian Journal of Statistics.
I am associate editor for
Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering.
Together with Mostafa Bachar and Jerry Batzel I have edited the book
Stochastic Biomathematical Models with applications to Neuronal
Modeling. Volume 2058 of
the
Lecture Notes in
Mathematics series (Biosciences subseries), 2012. See
also
the
electronic version.
I am guest editor on a special volume
in
Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, originated from the meeting
Dynamic Statistical
Models, ISI-satellite meeting, Copenhagen, August 17-19, 2011.
I am guest editor on a special volume
in
Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, originated from the
meeting
10th International Neural
Coding Workshop, Prague, September 2-7, 2012.
I have reviewed for the following journals:
Applied Mathematics and Computation,
Brain Research,
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology,
Chinese Journal of Physiology,
Computational Statistics,
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis,
Entropy,
Epidemiology,
ESAIM Probability & Statistics,
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering,
IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience,
Journal of Applied Probability/Advances in Applied Probability,
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics,
Journal of Mathematical Biology,
Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience,
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B,
Kidney International,
Lifetime Data Analysis,
Mathematical Biosciences,
Mathematical Biosciences & Engineering,
Mathematical Communications,
Mathematical Computer Modelling,
Neural Computation,
Neural Processing Letters,
Physica A,
Physical Review E,
Scandinavian Journal of Statistics,
Statistica Sinica,
Statistics,
Statistics in Medicine,
Statistics & Probability Letters,
Stochastic Processes and Their Applications.
I have also reviewed for:
The publisher Chapman and Hall, Springer, the Wallenberg Academy
Fellows Programme (Sweeden) and the Sweedish Research Council.
Susanne Ditlevsen TLF: +45 3532 07852012
2011
2010
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2002
Letters
Susanne Ditlevsen and Niels Keiding:
Letter to the Editor.
Statistics in Medicine, 26: 1415-1416, 2007.
Miscellaneous
Stochastic Biomathematical Models with applications to Neuronal
Modeling. Volume 2058 of
the
Lecture Notes in
Mathematics series (Biosciences subseries), 2012. See
also
the
electronic version.
PhD dissertation, 2004
Editorial
PhD students
Postdocs
Grants
2013-2017
UCPH Excellence Programme for Interdisciplinary Research (28.176.000
DKK ≈ 3.756.800 €). PI
2009-2013
Female Research Leader Award of the Danish Council for Independent Research |
Natural Sciences (5.760.000 DKK ≈ 768.000 €). PI
2009-2011
Danish Natural Science Research Council (300.000 DKK). PI
2009-2010
Villum Kann Rasmussen Foundation. VELUX Visiting Professor Programme
(290.000 DKK). PI
2008
Part of grant from Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses under the EU
Sixth Framework Programme (115.102 €)
2005-2007
Danish Medical Research Council (1.298.952 DKK). PI
2005-2007
Lundbeck Foundation (450.000 DKK). PI
Invited talks
2013
Workshop: Statistical methods for Neuronal
Data, Universite Descartes, Paris, France.
2013
DSTS two-days meeting, Aarhus, Denmark.
2013
EMS-DMF Joint Math Weekend, Aarhus, Denmark.
2013
Seminar at Institut für
Angewandte Mathematik, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
2012
Workshop: Probabilistic structures of the
brain, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France.
2012
Seminar at University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2012
Greek Stochastics Meeting, Kalamata, Greece.
2012
Random models in neuroscience, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France.
2011
Statistics Seminar, Lund University, Sweden.
2011
Oberwolfach Seminar, Oberwolfach, Germany.
2011
3rd G-Node Winter Course in Neural Data Analysis, Munich, Germany.
2011
Dansk Selskab
for Teoretisk Statistik,
generalforsamling, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2010
28th European Meeting of Statisticians, Piraeus, Greece.
2010
Sommertræf for
kandidatstuderende i
matematik, Dansk Matematisk
Forening, Holbæk.
2010
Joint SIAM/RSME-SCM-SEMA Meeting.
Emerging Topics in Dynamical Systems and
Partial Differential Equations, Barcelona, Spain.
2010
Seminar at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2010
Seminar at Durham University, UK.
2010
Workshop on Molecular Motors, Neuron Models, and Epidemics on Networks at
SAMSI, North Carolina.
2010
Stochastic Models in Neuroscience. Workshop at CIRM, Marseille,
France.
2009
Danish Mathematical Society.
Annual Meeting.
2009
Parameter estimation in physiological models. Euro
Summer School Lipari, Italy.
2009
Joint Conference of the Society for Mathematical
Biology and the Chinese Society for Mathematical Biology, Hangzhou, China.
2009
RUC-Modeldag. Matematiske Modeller i Diabetes.
2008
7th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Singapore.
2008
EPSRC Symposium Workshop on Computational Neuroscience, Mathematics Research
Centre, University of Warwick, UK.
2008
Warwick Systems Biology Centre, Warwick University, UK.
2008
Applications of spatio-temporal dynamical systems in
biology (workshop), Nice, France.
2008
International Biomedical modeling school and workshop, Bangalore, India.
2007
Rhein Main Kolloquium
Stochastik, Mainz, Germany.
2007
University
of Maine, USA.
2007
Gymnasieklasse fra
Sønderjylland.
2006
Structural Reliability and Stochastic Mechanics - Past,
Present, and Future. Symposium in honor of Ove Ditlevsen. DTU, Lyngby.
2006
Sarajevo Summer School:
Mathematical Techniques in Modeling Physiological Systems.
2006
Regionalmøde for gymnasielærere i matematik i Ribe
og Sønderjyllands amter, Esbjerg.
2006
Todagesmøde, Dansk Selskab for
Teoretisk Statistik, Copenhagen.
2006
SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences,
Raleigh, North Carolina.
2005
IMFUFA, Roskilde
Universitetscenter.
2005
Årsmøde for gymnasielærere i matematik, fysik og
kemi, Odense. Gentaget på regionalmødet for fynske matematiklærere,
Odense.
2005
CNR IASI, Rome, Italy.
2005
La Sapienza
University, Rome, Italy.
2005
University of Copenhagen.
2005
University of Lund, Sweden.
2004
MaPhySto (Centre for Mathematical Physics and
Stochastics), University of Aarhus.
2004
Epidemiologisk-Statistisk Seminar, Forskerskolerne i
Folkesundhedsvidenskab og Biostatistik, University of Copenhagen.
2004
Arbejdsmiljøinstituttet, Copenhagen.
2003
Dynamical Stochastic Modeling in Biology (workshop), University of
Copenhagen.
Press (In Danish)
2013
Matematisk Institut
2009
Videnskab.dk
2009
Det
Frie Forskningsråd, pressemeddelelse
2005
Femina
2005
Ugeskrift
for læger
2005
Universitetsavisen
Address
I can be contacted at:
University of Copenhagen
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Universitetsparken 5
DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
FAX: +45 3532 0704
e-mail susanne@math.ku.dk