Eva Vedel Jensen
{{short description|Danish mathematician}}
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Eva Bjørn Vedel Jensen (born 14 June 1951) is a Danish mathematician and statistician known for her work in spatial statistics, stereology, stochastic geometry, and medical imaging.{{r|stif}} She is a professor emeritus in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Aarhus University.{{r|cv}}
Education and career
After earning a master's degree at Aarhus University in 1976,{{r|stif}} she became a faculty member at the university in 1979. She completed a doctorate at Aarhus in 1987,{{r|stif|cv}} and became full professor there in 2003.{{r|cv}}
Recognition
Vedel Jensen has been an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute since 1992,{{r|cv|isi}} and is also a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.{{r|stif|kdvs}}
She won the Villum Kann Rasmussen Annual Award for Technical and Scientific Research of the Villum Foundation in 2009. She was named a knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 2010.{{r|stif|prizes}} The University of Bern gave her an honorary doctorate in 2013.{{r|prizes|unibe}}
Selected publications
Vedel Jensen is the author of books including:
- Local Stereology (World Scientific, 1998){{r|ls}}
- Stereology for Statisticians (with Adrian Baddeley, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2005){{r|s4s}}
She has also written several highly cited papers with Hans Jørgen G. Gundersen including:
- {{citation
| last1 = Jensen | first1 = E. B.
| last2 = Gundersen | first2 = H. J. G.
| last3 = Østerby | first3 = R.
| date = January 1979
| doi = 10.1111/j.1365-2818.1979.tb00149.x
| issue = 1
| journal = Journal of Microscopy
| pages = 19–33
| title = Determination of membrane thickness distribution from orthogonal intercepts
| volume = 115| pmid = 423237
| s2cid = 24466831
}}
- {{citation
| last1 = Gundersen | first1 = H. J. G.
| last2 = Jensen | first2 = E. B.
| date = May 1985
| doi = 10.1111/j.1365-2818.1985.tb02607.x
| issue = 2
| journal = Journal of Microscopy
| pages = 127–142
| title = Stereological estimation of the volume-weighted mean volume of arbitrary particles observed on random sections
| volume = 138| pmid = 4020857
| s2cid = 40399794
}}
- {{citation
| last1 = Gundersen | first1 = H. J. G.
| last2 = Jensen | first2 = E. B.
| date = September 1987
| doi = 10.1111/j.1365-2818.1987.tb02837.x
| issue = 3
| journal = Journal of Microscopy
| pages = 229–263
| title = The efficiency of systematic sampling in stereology and its prediction
| volume = 147| pmid = 3430576
| s2cid = 29713041
}}
- {{citation
| last1 = Vedel Jensen | first1 = E. B.
| last2 = Gundersen | first2 = H. J. G.
| date = April 1993
| doi = 10.1111/j.1365-2818.1993.tb03321.x
| issue = 1
| journal = Journal of Microscopy
| pages = 35–44
| title = The rotator
| volume = 170| s2cid = 221874026
}}
- {{citation
| last1 = Gundersen | first1 = H. J. G.
| last2 = Jensen | first2 = E. B. V.
| last3 = Kieu | first3 = K.
| last4 = Nielsen | first4 = J.
| date = March 1999
| doi = 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1999.00457.x
| issue = 3
| journal = Journal of Microscopy
| pages = 199–211
| title = The efficiency of systematic sampling in stereology – reconsidered
| volume = 193| pmid = 10348656
| s2cid = 35784656
}}
References
External links
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Category:Knights of the Order of the Dannebrog
Category:Members of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters