Christian Møller Dahl

Christian Møller Dahl is a Professor of Economics at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), affiliated with the Department of Economics and the Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics (CPop). His research focuses on theoretical statistics, time series analysis in finance, nonparametric estimation, machine learning, and causal inference. He leads the Big Data Analytics and Digitization (BDAD) research unit, specializing in automated digitization of historical documents like census records and death certificates. His work bridges economics, demography, and computer science, with applications in understanding long-term mortality patterns and economic cycles.

Education details are not explicitly stated, but CMD has extensive experience in interdisciplinary projects involving national archives and health institutions. His research agenda includes developing deep learning techniques for transcribing historical data, such as 20 million Danish death certificates, to aid demographers and epidemiologists. He has secured funding from Danish Research Foundations for projects like the Copenhagen Infant Health Nurse Records (CIHNR) cohort, studying early-life health policies and long-term outcomes.

Key collaborations include work with national archives on citizen science strategies for digitizing health data and interdisciplinary projects on occupational standardization using machine learning (e.g., OccCANINE). CMD’s methodological contributions include advancements in random fields, neural networks, and GARCH models for financial time series analysis.

• Grants: Multiple grants from Danish Research Foundations for digitization and health studies.
• Labs/Teams: BDAD unit (Big Data Analytics and Digitization) and CPop (Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics).
• Future Work: Expanding digitization of historical health records and exploring multi-generational health impacts.