Martin Rypdal
Professor/Department Head
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
CURRENT AND PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2017-present: Professor and head of Departement of Mathematics and Statistics, UiT
2012-2017: Associate Professor at the UiT The Arctic University of Norway
2009-2012: Post doc., University of Tromsø. Grant from the Norwegian Research Council.
2008-2009: Researcher, Northern Research Institute.
2004-2008: PhD position, University of Tromsø. Grant from the Norwegian Research Council.
EDUCATION
2008: PhD in mathematics: Dynamical and Stochastic Aspects of Self-Organized Critical Systems. Disputation date: 08.11.2008. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Tromsø, Norway.
Supervisor: Boris Kruglikov. 2004: Cand. Scient. in mathematics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Tromsø, Norway.
AWARDS
Two-time recipient of the Faculty Teaching Price, Faculty of Science and Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. (2007 and 2015)
SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND RESEARCH FELLOWS
• Supervisor of two PhD students (O. Løvsletten defended in 2014 and H.-B. Fredriksen defended in 2017)
• Currently supervisor of one PhD student (R. Steene)
• Currently co-supervisor of two PhD students (T. Nilsen and A. Theodorsen)
• Supervisor of 13 master students (Sund, Løvsletten, Polina, Checkanova, Smolkova, Zankova, Jespersen, Myklebust, Skagseth, Holmstrand, Grabovskaia, Tranås, Yong)
TEACHING
• Lecturer in Specialized curriculum in Industrial Mathematics (2009, 2014, 2016)
• Lecturer in Calculus (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
• Lecturer in Multivariate Calculus (2005, 2014, 2016)
• Lecturer in Linear Algebra (2007, 2013)
• Lecturer in Chaos and Fractals (2004)
• Lecturer in Mathematics Pre-course (2005)
• Teaching Assistant in Electromagnetism (two semesters)
• Teaching Assistant in Complex Analysis (one semesters)
• Teaching Assistant in Differential equations (one semesters)
• Teaching Assistant in Calculus (three semesters)
• Teaching Assistant in Linear Algebra (one semesters)
• Teaching Assistant in Users course in Mathematics (two semesters)
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
• Member of the UiT committee on sustainability (since 2019)
• Faculty board member, Faculty of Science and Technology, UiT (2014-2018)
• Coordinator for student athletes at the Faculty of Science (2010-2015)
MOBILITY
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Sep. 2010-Des. 2010).
• University of Granada, Spain (Apr. 2015-May 2015).
• University of California San Diego (Jan. 2017 - Jun. 2017).
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND EXPERIENCE
• Consultant for the Norwegian Olympic Team (2013-2015)
• Speaker at “Olympiatoppen” workshop (2012)
• Invited Speaker at Norwegian Athletics Coaches Association’s workshop (2006)
• Lecturer and instructor in athletics at the Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT (2012, 2013 and 2014).
• Coordinator for student athletes at the Faculty of Science (2010-2015)
• Coach three-times Norwegian champion relay team.
Personal athletic achievements:
• Norwegian 100m champion (2005 and 2006)
• Norwegian 60m champion (2003, 2004, 2005 and 2010)
• Norwegian 200m indoor champion (2001,2002 and 2005)
• European Championship 60m semi-finalist (2007)
• European Championship 100m quarter-finalist (2006)
• Recipient of “Troms Idrettskrets Hederstegn” (2010)
LEDERSHIP EXPERIENCE
• Leading the UiT initiative on "The Dynamics of the Climate in the Arctic".
• Leader of a project in market risk analysis, which was partly financed by Sparebank-1 Nord-Norge and the Norwegian Research Council.
• Co-managing the research project “Long-range memory in Earth’s climate response and the implications for future global warming“. The project is funded by the NRC (project number 229754-E10).
• Leader and coach of a group of high-level athletes (sprinters) in Tromsø 2003-2011. The team has won several Norwegian Championships and qualified for international events.
POPULARIZATION, OUTREACH AND IN MEDIA
• Breakthrough in predicting dengue fever outbreaks
• Breakthrough predicting dengue fever outbreaks
• UiT-forsker med gjennombrudd: Modell kan forutsi omfanget av dengue-epidemier
• Kawasaki’s disease: one disease multiple triggers
• “En Felles Arena”. Recruitment project with K. Rypdal. (2008)
• Are interest rates predictable? (with G. Andreassen), Faculty organized popular talk (2011)
• Presentations of Applied Mathematics. Kongsbakken vgs and Nordkjosbotn vgs (2011)
• Fun with Fractals. Nord-Norsk Vitensenter. (2011)
• Presentation of Mathematics and Finance. Nord-Norsk Vitensenter (2011)
Articles in newspapers and magazines:
• “Rasende Dynamikk”. (with K. Rypdal), Avisa Nordlys (2008)
• “Hva bestemmer nivået?” (with K. Rypdal), Bladet Friidrett (2006)