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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 |
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.
CV
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