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James W. Vaupel

James W. Vaupel

PPARC Faculty Director, DuPRI Director, Duke Research Professor, and Founding Director, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Contact Info 
Location: Sanford Institute of Public Policy (Rubenstein Hall 186)
Email Address:  send me a message
Website: http://user.demogr.mpg.de/jwv/
Mailing Address: Sanford Institute of Public Policy Rubenstein Hall, Rm 186, 302 Towerview Rd. Durham, NC 27708-0309 -or - MPI of Demographic Research, Konrad-Zuse-Strasse 1, 18057 Rostock, Germany
PPARC Grants:
R01 AG026786: Biodemography of Disease and Death in Moscow
R01 AG023627 (no longer managed by PPARC): Demographic Analysis of Healthy Longevity in China
R37 AG018444: Mortality Surface Analysis
U01 AG023712: Exceptional Survival in Danish and Italian Families
P01 AG008761 0002: Oldest Old Mortality - Demographic Models and Analysis: Project 2 - Determinants of Extreme Survival in Humans
P01 AG008761 0001: Oldest Old Mortality - Demographic Models and Analysis: Project 1 - Exceptional Human Longevity in International Context
P01 AG008761: Oldest-Old Mortality - Demographic Models and Analysis: Administrative Core
R01 AG020549: Demographic Analysis of Sardinian Longevity
Education:
  • PhD, Kennedy School, Harvard University, 1978
  • M.P.P. Policy Analysis, Harvard University, 1972
  • B.A. Mathematical Statistics, Harvard University, 1967

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. 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 .
  2. 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.) .
  3. 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 .
  4. 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.) .
  5. 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 .