James Vaupel Explained

James W. Vaupel
Birth Date:2 May 1945
Birth Place:New York City U.S.
Fields:Aging research, biodemography, demography
Thesis Title:Early death: a policy analysis of the prospects for saving lives
Thesis Url:http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8988212
Thesis Year:1977
Workplaces:Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Duke University
Awards:Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

James W. Vaupel (May 2, 1945 – March 27, 2022) was an American scientist in the fields of aging research, biodemography, and formal demography. He was instrumental in developing and advancing the idea of the plasticity of longevity, and pioneered research on the heterogeneity of mortality risks and on the deceleration of death rates at the highest ages.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Later positions

Vaupel was the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany in 1996. He was also a research professor at Duke University and the director of its Population, Policy, Aging and Research Center. Vaupel was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, a regular scientific member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[6] He has been involved in many endeavors and published over 20 books.[7] [8]

Contributions

Convinced that formal demography is the source of the discipline's strength, Vaupel has contributed to the methodological foundations of demography. In 2001 he was awarded by the Population Association of America the Irene B. Taeuber Award for his lifetime research achievements.[9] In 2008 he received the Mindel C. Sheps Award for his work in mathematical demography.[10]

Vaupel has been a leading proponent of the idea of the plasticity of longevity.[11] Many people believe there is a looming limit to human life expectancy. Vaupel's research shows that life expectancy is likely to increase well beyond the purported limit of 85 years.[12] Furthermore, Vaupel and others (such as Bernard Jeune of Denmark) advanced a new proposition: that the human life span is not fixed, but is a function of life expectancy and population size.[1] He and S. Jay Olshansky have had a disagreement about what this means in terms of future projections of the human life span.[13]

Vaupel's work also focuses on the nascent field of evolutionary demography. His research activities here strive to understand age-specific mortality in terms of the evolutionary processes that shape it.[14]

Because in his studies, particular attention is paid to mortality improvements at the end of the lifespan, Vaupel has been instrumental in the emerging field of research into supercentenarians as a population subset.[15] The number of persons aged 110+ in a single European nation is rather small. Vaupel therefore began the push in 2000 by inviting experts from around the world to meet in international workshops[16] and to found the International Database on Longevity, which provides information on individuals attaining extreme ages and permits demographic analysis of mortality at the highest ages.[17]

Awards & Recognitions

For his numerous publications and activities throughout his career, James Vaupel received the following awards and recognitions:

External links

Notes and References

  1. 10.1126/science.1069675 . DEMOGRAPHY: Enhanced: Broken Limits to Life Expectancy . 2002 . Oeppen . J. . Science . 296 . 5570 . 1029–31 . 12004104 . Vaupel . JW. 1132260 .
  2. 10.1126/science.280.5365.855 . Biodemographic Trajectories of Longevity . 1998 . Vaupel . J. W. . Science . 280 . 5365 . 855–60 . 9599158 . Carey . JR . Christensen . K . Johnson . TE . Yashin . AI . Holm . NV . Iachine . IA . Kannisto . V . Khazaeli . AA. Liedo . P . Longo . V. D. . Zeng . Y . Manton . K. G. . Curtsinger . J. W. . 1998Sci...280..855. . 8 .
  3. 10.1126/science.1090529 . AGING: It's Never Too Late . 2003 . Vaupel . J. W. . Science . 301 . 5640 . 1679–81 . 14500969 . Carey . JR . Christensen . K . 2611955.
  4. 439–54 . 10.2307/2061224 . Vaupel . J. W. . Manton . K. G. . Stallard . E. . 37092511 . The Impact of Heterogeneity in Individual Frailty on the Dynamics of Mortality . 16 . 3 . Demography . 1979 . 510638. 2061224 . free .
  5. 319–23 . 10.1007/BF02185763 . The heritability of human longevity: A population-based study of 2872 Danish twin pairs born 1870–1900 . 1996 . Herskind . Anne Maria . McGue . Matthew . Holm . Niels V. . Sørensen . Thorkild I. A. . Harvald . Bent . Vaupel . James W. . 3797699 . Human Genetics . 97 . 3 . 8786073.
  6. Web site: Prof. Dr. James W. Vaupel.
  7. Web site: Publications by year . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120722210527/http://user.demogr.mpg.de/jwv/cgi-bin/publications.plx . July 22, 2012 .
  8. Web site: Quick Search "Vaupel" . Max Planck Society - eDoc Server.
  9. Web site: Irene B.Taeuber Awardees . Population Association of America . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080603105254/http://www.popassoc.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3306 . June 3, 2008 .
  10. Web site: Mindel C. Sheps Awardees . Population Association of America . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090210042527/http://www.popassoc.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3307 . February 10, 2009 .
  11. Web site: The Plasticity of Longevity: Interview with James Vaupel . SAGE Crossroads . December 14, 2004 . October 5, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111030221245/http://www.sagecrossroads.net/files/transcript21.pdf . October 30, 2011.
  12. News: Hell No, We Won't Go! Surprising demographic trends raise a tough question: Will the elderly live so long that society can't cope? . CNN Money . July 19, 1999 . David . Stipp.
  13. Staying Alive . Discover . Health & Medicine / Aging . Karen . Wright . November 2003.
  14. 3401355 . 258–269 . Vaupel . J. W. . Post-Darwinian Longevity . 29 . Population and Development Review . 2003.
  15. Robine . J.-M. . J. W. . Vaupel . 129046321 . Emergence of supercentenarians in low mortality countries . North American Actuarial Journal . 6 . 3 . 54–63 . 2002 . 10.1080/10920277.2002.10596057 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070625230759/http://user.demogr.mpg.de/jwv/pdf/AmActJournal2002.pdf . June 25, 2007 .
  16. Web site: Past Workshops . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070819215127/http://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/calendar/workshops_1.htm . August 19, 2007 .
  17. Web site: IDL Project: Introduction. International Database on Longevity (www.supercentenarians.org) .
  18. Web site: ESF awards 13th European Latsis Prize to James Vaupel on pioneering demographic research : European Science Foundation . 2023-04-28 . archives.esf.org.
  19. Web site: Mitglieder . 2023-04-28 . Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina . de-DE.
  20. Web site: 2009-02-10 . Mindel C. Sheps Award - Population Association of America . 2023-04-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090210042527/http://www.popassoc.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3307 . February 10, 2009 .
  21. Web site: James W. Vaupel . 2023-04-28 . www.nasonline.org.
  22. Web site: MPIDR - The 2003 Longevity prize of the Ipsen Foundation awarded to James W. Vaupel . 2023-04-28 . Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research . en.
  23. Web site: MPIDR - Founding Director James W. Vaupel Passed Away . 2023-04-28 . Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research . en.
  24. Web site: James Vaupel knighted for his contribution to research Population Europe . 2023-04-28 . www.population-europe.eu.

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