James W. Vaupel
Curriculum Vitae
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University of Southern Denmark Odense, 5000 Denmark |
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| EDUCATION |
1978 Ph. D., Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Dissertation: "Early Death: A Policy Analysis of the Prospects for Saving Lives" 1971 Master of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA 1968 passed Doctoral Examinations, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, USA 1967 B.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, highest honors in Mathematical Statistics |
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| HONORS |
2018 EAPS Award for Population Studies 2017 Cozzarelli Prize, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [ News ] 2015 Honorary Doctor of Economics, Lund, Sweden 2011 European Latsis Prize 2011, European Science Foundation [ European Latsis Prize 2011 | Laudatio for James Vaupel ] 2010 Honorary Doctor of Civil Law, Newcastle, United Kingdom 2009 Seneca Medal, Industrieclub Düsseldorf, Germany 2008 Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Germany 2008 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, USA 2008 Mindel C. Sheps Award for Mathematical Demography, Population Association of America, USA [ Talk by James W. Vaupel ] 2004 Regular Scientific Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 2003 Longevity prize of the Ipsen Foundation, France 2001 Irene B. Taeuber Award for Lifetime Achievement, Population Association of America, USA 1996 Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society, Germany |
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| EMPLOYMENT |
January 2019 - current Professor of Social Sciences, of Health Sciences and of Natural Sciences, University of Southern Denmark January 2013 - December 2017 Director, Max-Planck Odense Center on the Biodemography of Aging, Denmark October 1996 - December 2017 Director, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany 2007 - 2017 Director, Max Planck International Research Network on Aging January 2006 - current Research Professor, Sanford Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA 2004 - December 2017 Director, Rostocker Zentrum zur Erforschung des Demografischen Wandels, Germany 2003 - December 2017 "Honorarprofessor" (Full professor with all rights and privileges but with a reduced teaching load and without pay), University Rostock, Germany 2000 - 2013 Rector, International Max Planck Research School for Demography 1999 - 2007 and 2013 - 2017 Founding Publisher and Member of the Scientific Review Board, Demographic Research, an online journal of research and commentary in the population sciences January 1992 - December 2005 Senior Research Scientist, Sanford Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA June 1991 - 2002, January 2011 - December 2018 Professor of Demography and Epidemiology, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark September 1985 - December 1991 Professor of Public Affairs and Planning, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA September 1988 - December 1991 also Professor of Ancient Studies and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA July 1984 - December 1985, May - August 1983, and September 1981 - July 1982 Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria 1979 - 1981 Study Director, Committee on Risk and Decision Making, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., USA October 1979 - March 1982 Consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., USA August 1972 - August 1985 Lecturer to tenured Associate Professor, Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA September 1967 - May 1975 Research Associate, Harvard Multinational Enterprise Project, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, USA |
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| SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE |
2012 - 2013 Founding President, Evolutionary Demography Society 2009 - current Chairman, Board of Trustees, Population Europe 2009 - 2010 Chair, Advisory Board, Centre for Population Change, United Kingdom 2008 - 2012 Panel Chair, European Research Council Starting Grant, European Union 2008 - 2012 Member, Advisory Board, Population and Development Review, Population Council, USA 2007 - 2011 Deputy Editor, Demography, USA 2005 - current Rector, European Doctoral School of Demography 2004 - 2006 Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK 2004 - 2010 Member, Scientific Advisory Council of the Netherlands, Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, The Netherlands 2003 - current Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University Medical Center, USA 2003 - current "Honorarprofessor" (Full professor with all rights and privileges but with a reduced teaching load and without pay), University Rostock, Germany 2003 - current Member, European Association for Population Studies, Committee on Training in Population Studies in Europe, Chair of the Council of EAPS 2003 - 2007 Member, Social Science and Population Studies Review Committee, U.S. National Institutes of Health, USA 2000 - current Rector, International Max Planck Research School for Demography 1999 - current Founding Publisher and Member of the Scientific Review Board, Demographic Research, an online journal of research and commentary in the population sciences 1999 - 2005 Member, Standing Committee on Population, National Research Council, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, USA 1999 - 2002 Member, Commission on Global Aging, "Global Aging Initiative" (Honorary Co-Chairs Ryutaro Hashimoto, Walter F. Mondale, and Karl-Otto Pöhl) January 1998 - 2002 Member, National Advisory Council on Aging, National Institutes of Health, USA 1998 - 2002 Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Chinese National Research Center on Aging 1999 - 2001 Chair, Advisory Board, European Association for Population Studies 1999 - 2001 Member, Scientific Advisory Board, German Socio-Economic Panel, Germany 1999 - 2000 Co-Chair, Committee on the Use of Biological Indicators in Social Science Surveys, National Research Council, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, USA 1998 - 2000 Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, Danish Center for Demographic Research, Denmark 1998 - 2000 Member, Committee on Population Forecasting, National Research Council, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, USA September 1992 - March 1997 Member, Social Science and Population Review Committee, U.S. National Institutes of Health, USA October 1992 - September 1996 Head, Aging Research Center, Odense University Medical School, Denmark February 1990 - 2002 Program Director, "Oldest-Old Mortality: Demographic Models and Analyses", a "P01 program project" grant from the National Institute on Aging, U.S. National Institutes of Health, USA July 1987 - December 1991 Program Director, "Interdisciplinary Research in the Population Sciences", a grant from the Sloan Foundation June 1987 - December 1991 Examining member of the graduate faculty in Gerontology, University of Minnesota, USA September 1986 - December 1991 Member, Advisory Committee, University of Minnesota's China Center, USA April 1986 - December 1991 Director, Center for Population Analysis and Policy, University of Minnesota, USA July 1986 - June 1990 Member, Gerontology Review Committee, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, USA September 1980 - September 1985 Associate Editor, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and founding editor of the "Insights" department of that journal |
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| PAPERS, BOOKS, AND PROPOSALS REVIEWED FOR |
Climate Change Demographic Research Demography Ecology European Journal of Population The Gerontologist International Studies Quarterly Journal of Aging and Health Journal of Economic Literature Journal of Forecasting Journals of Gerontology Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law Journal of Policy Analysis and Management Journal of the American Statistical Association Management Science Mathematical Biosciences Mathematical Population Studies Nature Physical Review Letters Policy Analysis Policy Sciences Political Science Quarterly Population and Development Review PNAS Public Policy Science Theoretical Population Biology Cambridge University Press Goodyear Publishing Company Oxford University Press The Danish Cancer Society The U.S. National Institutes of Health The U.S. National Science Foundation |
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| COURSES TAUGHT |
Benefit-Cost Analysis Computer Simulation Decision Analysis Demographic Theory of Mortality Formal Demography Health, Safety, and Environmental Policy International Business Management International Economic Policy Managerial Economics Mathematical Statistics Mathematical Modeling National Policies toward Multinational Enterprises Policy Implications of Demographic Change Population Analysis Population and Policy Public Management Regulatory Policy Statistical Analysis of Survival Data Topics in Epidemiology U.S. Policy toward World Population Growth |
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| PERSONAL |
Born 2 May 1945 in New York, USA Died 27 May 2022 in Denmark |
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