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James W. Vaupel
PPARC Faculty Director, DuPRI Director, Duke Research Professor, and Founding Director, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research- Contact Info
- Location: Social Science Research Institute - PPARC offices
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- Website: http://user.demogr.mpg.de/jwv/
- Mailing Address: Social Science Research Institute, Erwin Square Mill Building, PPARC Office A-105, 2024 West Main Street, Box 90420, Durham 27708-0420, USA, -or - MPI of Demographic Research, Konrad-Zuse-Strasse 1, 18057 Rostock, Germany
- Education:
- PhD, Kennedy School, Harvard University, 1978
- M.P.P. Policy Analysis, Harvard University, 1972
- B.A. Mathematical Statistics, Harvard University, 1967
Research Summary:
Research: Demography of aging; mortality at advanced ages; environmental and genetic plasticity of mortality rates
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- Elisabetta Barbi and Vaupel JW, Comment on "inflammatory exposure and historical changes in human life-spans". Technical comment, Science, vol. 308 no. 5729 (2005), pp. 1743a .
- James R. Carey and Vaupel JW, Biodemography, in Handbook of Population, edited by DL Poston and M Micklin (2005), Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research.) .
- Nadege Minois, Frajnt M, Wilson C and Vaupel JW, Advances in measuring lifespan in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America., vol. 102 no. 2 (2005), pp. 402-406 .
- J.W. Vaupel, The biodemography of aging, in Aging, health, and public policy: demographic and economic perspectives, edited by LJ Waite (2005), pp. 48-62, New York: Population Council (Supplement: Population and Development Review, 30, 2004.) .
- James W. Vaupel, Baudisch A, Dölling M, Roach DA and Gampe J., The case for negative senescence. Theoretical Population, Biology, vol. 65 no. 4 (2004), pp. 339-351 .