Peter Guttorp is a statistician, born in Sweden, with most of his career in the United States.
[2] Most of his work is in stochastic modeling of scientific data in hematology, geosciences, and climatology, with particular focus on spatial and spatio-temporal approaches.
Guttorp received a journalist exam from the Stockholm School of Journalism in 1969, and a PhD in Statistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980.
[3] He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Lund University in 2009.
[6] He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute[7] and served on its executive committee as vice president from 2017 to 2021.