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

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. She is a professor emeritus in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at

Aarhus University Aarhus University ( da, Aarhus Universitet, abbreviated AU) is a public research university with its main campus located in Aarhus, Denmark. It is the second largest and second oldest university in Denmark. The university is part of the Coimbra Gr ...

Education and career

After earning a master's degree at

in 1976, she became a faculty member at the university in 1979. She completed a doctorate at Aarhus in 1987, and became full professor there in 2003.

Recognition

Vedel Jensen has been an Elected Member of the

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since 1992, and is also a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. 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 The Order of the Dannebrog ( da, Dannebrogordenen) is a Danish order of chivalry instituted in 1671 by Christian V. Until 1808, membership in the order was limited to fifty members of noble or royal rank, who formed a single class known a ...

in 2010. The University of Bern gave her an honorary doctorate in 2013.

Selected publications

Vedel Jensen is the author of books including: *''Local Stereology'' (World Scientific, 1998) *''Stereology for Statisticians'' (with Adrian Baddeley, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2005) She has also written several highly cited papers with

Hans Jørgen G. Gundersen Hans Jørgen Gottlieb Gundersen was a Danish stereology researcher (2.5.1943-1.2.2021). He was employed as a professor at Aarhus University. In January 2008 he received the August Krogh Prize "for his ground-breaking research in stereology for t ...

including: * * * * *

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vedel Jensen, Eva Living people Danish mathematicians Danish statisticians Danish women mathematicians Women statisticians Aarhus University alumni Academic staff of Aarhus University Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute Knights of the Order of the Dannebrog Members of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 1951 births Spatial statisticians