Maria Deijfen
Maria Deijfen is a Swedish mathematician known for her research on random graphs and stochastic processes on graphs, including the Reed–Frost model of epidemics. She is a professor of mathematics at Stockholm University.
Education and career
Deijfen was educated at Stockholm University, earning a licenciate in 2001, a doctorate in 2004, and a habilitation in 2008. Her doctoral dissertation, Stochastic Models for Spatial Growth and Competition, was supervised by Olle Häggström.After completing her doctorate, she became a postdoctoral researcher at the Mittag-Leffler Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Chalmers University, and Delft University of Technology before returning to Stockholm as a junior faculty member in 2006. She was promoted to full professor in mathematical statistics in 2015.