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I am member of the Physics of Ice Climate and Earth (PICE) group

https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/pice/ 

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Peter D. Ditlevsen
Professor, PhD, Dr. Scient
Niels Bohr Institute
University of Copenhagen
Tagensvej 16
DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø
Tel: + 45 28750603
[email protected]

Private:
Thorsvej 18 ,3460 Birkerød
Denmark

ORCID: 0000-0003-2120-7732

Research profile: The subject of my PhD work was within solid state physics understanding the spectrum of surface phonons in metal surfaces; 

PhD thesis “Vibrational Properties of Metal Surfaces”. With my background in theoretical physics, I moved into the subjects of fluid mechanics and turbulence, meteorology and climate dynamics.
My expertise is in physics of climate, theory of turbulence, dynamical systems, especially shell models,stochastic dynamical systems, alpha-stable processes, timeseries analysis, especially analysis of paleoclimatic records,climate dynamics and statistics, theory of climate change, detection of bifurcation or tipping points, dynamical meteorology, linear stability analysis of governing equations, kinetic energy spectra of the atmosphere, chaos and predictability. equations, kinetic energy spectra of the atmosphere, chaos and predictability.
Lately my focus has been on Tipping Points in the Earth system, especially on the risk of an AMOC collapse.

Publications 

Education

Dr. Scient (2004) Doctoral thesis: "Turbulence and climate dynamics", University of Copenhagen.
PhD (1991) in Theoretical Solid State Physics at the Laboratory of Applied Physics, The Technical University of Denmark.
MSc (1988) in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

Employments
2021-present: Professor at Niels Bohr Institute, University of                   Copenhagen
2000-2020:    Associate Professor (Lektor) at Niels Bohr Institute, University of  Copenhagen.
2007-2020: Didactic and pedagogic supervisor for Physics (earlier "Mentor for University didactics") at the Faculty of Science University of Copenhagen.
2000-present: Member of corps of censors for Danish universities  (Fysikcensorkorpset).
2002-present: Member of corps of censors, DTU.
1994-1999: Carlsberg research fellow (Forskningslektor) at Niels Bohr Institute,  University of Copenhagen.
1996:  Guest researcher at National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado.
1994-2002: Member of Danish Ministry of Education corps of censors  for education of teachers.
1992-1993: Researcher at Danish Meteorological Institute.
1991-1992: Postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California.
1988-1991: Danish National Research Council and Danish Surface Science Center fellow at Laboratory of Applied Physics, Technical University of Denmark.
1983-1988: Teacher in mathematics at the Engineering Academy of Denmark, Copenhagen (DIA), assistant teacher at Institute of Mathematics, University of Copenhagen.

Bibliometry: Google Scholar

Keynotes: 4-6/year

Honors: Member of the Royal Danish Academy of the Sciences, Carlsberg fellow, 1994-1997, Ole Rømer Prize, 1998, Granted stay at San Cataldo refuge, 2002, Niels Bohr Institute teaching prize, 2004, Various research grants.

Teaching: All levels of teaching and supervision
Freshman lecturing: Student experimenting
Lectures during lockdown:  Electrodynamics and Thermodynamics.
Graduate course in Turbulence (textbook). 

Outreach: Popular science articles, answers to reader’s physics questions, interviews to magazines and newspapers. Irregular lecture
in high schools, folkehøjskoler, culture-night and other public events, panel discussion at “Folkemødet på Bornholm”, national radio and TV 4-6 times/year, 40+ popular science features and newspaper articles,
a weekly podcast together with journalist David Trads.
Our 2023 Nature Comm. paper led to more than 4000 news outlets
and radio/TV interviews worldwide and is ranged 1st of the
top 25 Nature Comm. Papers.

Scientific leadership
CriticalEarth Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Initial Training Network, 2021-24
TiPES RIA, H2020, 2019-23

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