James W. Vaupel

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James Walton Vaupel (born May 2, 1945 in New York , NY ) is an American population scientist , professor of demography , epidemiology and gerontology and director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR).

Life

Vaupel studied mathematical statistics at Harvard University , where he also earned his BA in 1967. From 1967 to 1975, Vaupel worked as a research assistant at Harvard Business School and participated in the Harvard Multinational Enterprise Project , a study of 187 American companies on the typical sequence of organizational structures. Parallel to this activity, Vaupel obtained a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1971 . In 1978 Vaupel did his doctorate there at the Kennedy School of Government with a dissertation on the subject of Early Death: A Policy Analysis of the Prospects for Saving Lives (German: Early Death - a guide to measures to save lives ) for Ph. D.

From 1972 to 1985 Vaupel was an adjunct lecturer at the Institute for Political Science and Public Affairs at Duke University, from 1979 to 1982 as an advisor to the US Environmental Protection Agency and from 1979 to 1981 as an investigative head in the committee for risk and decision-making of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC After a short academic stay at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg / Austria, Vaupel accepted the call to the University of Minnesota in 1988 and became Professor of Age Research, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Professor of Public Affairs and Planning. In 1991 Vaupel returned to Europe and became Professor of Demography and Epidemiology at the Institute for Public Health at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark. Parallel to the professorship in Odense ( until 2002 ), Vaupel remained a scientist at the Sanford Institute of Duke University from 1992 to 2005, which was upgraded to a research professorship in 2006.

Vaupel has been director at the MPIDR in Rostock since 1996 and has been director of the Rostock Center for Research into Demographic Change since 2004. In addition, Vaupel heads the Population, Policy, Aging and Research Center at Duke University and holds numerous other functions, including as rector of the European Doctoral School of Demography , honorary professor at the University of Rostock and a member of the review committee for social science and population studies at the National Institute of Health . James Vaupel is married to Bodil Gøbel Vaupel and has two children.

Awards and memberships

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

Works (selection)

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

  • Supercentenarians , J. Vaupel et al. (Ed.), Springer Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-642-26347-7
  • JW Vaupel: Preface . In: Healthy longevity in China. (Eds.) Y. Zeng, DL Poston, Jr., D. Ashbaugh Vlosky and D. Gu. Springer Verlag (2008)
  • JW Vaupel: We have to completely rethink our CVs . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 13, 31 (January 16, 2007) .:
  • JW Vaupel and KG von Kistowski: The plasticity of human life expectancy and its consequences In: The future of aging. Report of the Max Planck Society, (Ed.) P. Gruss. CH 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)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Kutschker and Stefan Schmid, International Management, 6th edition: Google Books . Pp. 549-556.
  2. ↑ a b Curriculum Vitae: Homepage James W. Vaupel . As of March 16, 2009
  3. ↑ ESF awards 13th European Latsis Prize to James Vaupel on pioneering demographic research at esf.org; Retrieved November 25, 2011.
  4. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. James W. Vaupel (with picture and CV) at the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina , accessed on June 28, 2016.
  5. ↑ Press release, April 29, 2008: Vaupel Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences , accessed September 15, 2018.
  6. ↑ Membership: American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Prof. James W. Vaupel , accessed on September 14, 2018.
  7. ^ Overview of award winners: Mindel C. Sheps Award ( Memento from February 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).
  8. ^ Membership National Academy of Sciences: James W. Vaupel , accessed September 15, 2018.
  9. ↑ Overview of prices: Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium .
  10. ↑ FAZ article: James W. Vaupel Interview . January 15, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Vaupel, James W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vaupel, James Walton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American population scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , NY