James Vaupel

James W. Vaupel ( born 2 May 1945 in New York, NY) is an American demographer, professor of demography, epidemiology and Gerontology and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ( MPIDR ).

Life

Vaupel studied at Harvard University Mathematical Statistics and acquired there in 1967 and his BA From 1967 to 1975 Vaupel worked as a research associate at Harvard Business School and worked with the Harvard Multinational Enterprise Project, a study of 187 American companies to the typical sequence of organizational structures. Acquired parallel to this activity Vaupel 1971 Master in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. 1978 doctorate Vaupel there at the Kennedy School of Government with a dissertation on the topic of Early Death: A Policy Analysis of the Prospects for Saving Lives ( German: Early death - a counselor measures the prospects of saving lives ) for Ph. D..

From 1972 to 1985 Vaupel served as adjunct lecturer at the Institute of Political Science and Public Affairs employed at Duke University, worked beside from 1979 to 1982 as a consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and from 1979 to 1981, be examined Head of the Committee for Risk and decision making at of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC. a short scientific activity stay at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg ( Austria ) Vaupel follows in 1988 to teach at the University of Minnesota and became a professor of gerontology, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Professor of Public Affairs and planning. Vaupel 1991, he returned back to Europe and became a professor of demography and epidemiology at the Institute of Public Health at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark. Parallel to the professorship in Odense (until 2002), Vaupel remained from 1992 to 2005, scientists at the Sanford Institute at Duke University, which was upgraded in 2006 to research professorship.

Since 1996, Vaupel is Director at MPIDR in Rostock and leads since 2004 as director of the Rostock Center for the Study of Demographic Change. In addition, directs Vaupel the population, policy, Aging and Research Center at Duke University and is located in numerous other function, including as rector of the European Doctoral School of Demography, Honorary Professor at the University of Rostock and as a member of the Review Committee for Social Sciences and Population Studies of the National Institutes of Health. James Vaupel is married to Bodil Vaupel Gobel and has two children.

Awards

James Vaupel received for his numerous publications and activities in the course of his career the following awards:

  • European Latsis Prize (2011)
  • Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Germany (2008)
  • Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, USA (2008)
  • Mindel C. Sheps winners of the Award for Mathematical Demography of the Population Association of America, USA (2008)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (2004)
  • Winners of the Longevity Prize of the Ipsen Foundation, France ( 2003)
  • Irene B. Taeuber winners of the Award for Lifetime Achievement of the Population Association of America, USA (2001)
  • Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society, Germany (1996 )

Works (selection)

James Vaupel is the author, co-author and editor of numerous publications, articles and papers:

  • J. W. Vaupel: Preface. In: Healthy longevity in China. (Eds.) Y. ​​Zeng, DL Poston, Jr., D. Ashbaugh Vlosky and D. Gu. Springer Verlag ( 2008)
  • Vaupel JW: We have completely re-thinking our CVs. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 13, 31 (16 January 2007).:
  • JW Vaupel KG and of Kistowski: The plasticity of human life expectancy and its consequences In: The future of aging. Report of the Max Planck Society, ( Ed. ) P. Gruss. C. H. Beck, Munich 2007, 51-78. (2007)
  • JW Vaupel and E. Loichinger: Redistributing Work in Aging Europe. Science 312, 1911-1913 (2006).
  • Oeppen, J. and JW Vaupel: Broken limits to life expectancy. Science 296, 1029-1031 (2002)
  • Vaupel, JW, KG Manton and E. Stallard: The impact of heterogeneity in individual frailty on the dynamics of mortality. Demography 16, 439-454 (1979 )
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