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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Economics and Empirical Social Sciences
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2004 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

James W. Vaupel was affiliated with the University of Southern Denmark. Their research primarily focused on social sciences and health professions, with a significant concentration in demography and general health professions as subfields.

The scientist contributed extensively to literature on topics including insurance, mortality, demography, and risk management. Other prominent areas of work involved global health care issues, health disparities and outcomes, climate change and health impacts, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, genetics, aging and longevity in model organisms, as well as birth, development, and health.

Frequent publication venues for their work included:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Demographic Research
  • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Coauthors who collaborated on multiple works with James W. Vaupel included Francisco Villavicencio, José Manuel Aburto, Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher, Silvia Rizzi, and Kaare Christensen.

Selected recent papers demonstrated the range and scope of their research:

  • "Dynamics of life expectancy and life span equality," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Demographic perspectives on the rise of longevity," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "National age and coresidence patterns shape COVID-19 vulnerability," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Death rates at specific life stages mold the sex gap in life expectancy," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The long lives of primates and the 'invariant rate of ageing' hypothesis," 2021, Nature Communications

Their scholarly output also included book publications with notable publishers such as Springer Nature and Princeton University Press. Titles included "Exceptional Lifespans" published in 2020 and "Biodemography" published in 2020.

Throughout their career, James W. Vaupel received several recognitions, including fellowships and academy memberships:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2004
  • Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 2008, recognized in economics and empirical social sciences

Best Publications

  • Ageing populations: the challenges ahead

    Kaare Christensen;Gabriele Doblhammer;Roland Rau;James W Vaupel

  • Broken Limits to Life Expectancy

    Jim Oeppen;James W. Vaupel

  • The impact of heterogeneity in individual frailty on the dynamics of mortality.

    James W. Vaupel;Kenneth G. Manton;Eric Stallard

  • Biodemography of human ageing.

    James W. Vaupel

  • Biodemographic Trajectories of Longevity

    James W. Vaupel;James R. Carey;Kaare Christensen;Thomas E. Johnson

  • Heterogeneity's ruses: some surprising effects of selection on population dynamics.

    James W. Vaupel;Anatoli I. Yashin

  • Diversity of ageing across the tree of life

    Owen Jones;Alexander Scheuerlein;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Carlo Giovanni Camarda

  • The heritability of human longevity: A population-based study of 2872 Danish twin pairs born 1870–1900

    Anne Maria Herskind;Matthew McGue;Niels V. Holm;Thorkild I. A. Sørensen

  • Survival, disabilities in activities of daily living, and physical and cognitive functioning among the oldest-old in China: a cohort study.

    Yi Zeng;Yi Zeng;Qiushi Feng;Therese Hesketh;Therese Hesketh;Kaare Christensen

  • Men: good health and high mortality. Sex differences in health and aging*

    Anna Oksuzyan;Anna Oksuzyan;Knud Juel;James W. Vaupel;Kaare Christensen

  • Slowing of mortality rates at older ages in large medfly cohorts.

    James R. Carey;Pablo Liedo;Dina Orozco;James W. Vaupel

  • The quest for genetic determinants of human longevity: challenges and insights

    Kaare Christensen;Thomas E. Johnson;James W. Vaupel

  • Genetic influence on human lifespan and longevity

    Jacob v. B. Hjelmborg;Ivan Iachine;Axel Skytthe;James W. Vaupel

  • Lifespan depends on month of birth

    Gabriele Doblhammer;James W. Vaupel

  • Demography of genotypes: failure of the limited life-span paradigm in Drosophila melanogaster.

    James W. Curtsinger;Hidenori H. Fukui;David R. Townsend;James W. Vaupel

  • The force of mortality at ages 80 to 120

    A. R. Thatcher;Väinö Kannisto;James W. Vaupel

  • Reductions in mortality at advanced ages: several decades of evidence from 27 countries.

    Kannisto;Lauritsen J;Thatcher Ar;Vaupel Jw

  • Longevity is moderately heritable in a sample of Danish twins born 1870-1880.

    Matt McGue;James W. Vaupel;Niels Holm;Bent Harvald

  • Regulation and Its Reform, <i>by Stephen Breyer</i>

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  • Physical and cognitive functioning of people older than 90 years: a comparison of two Danish cohorts born 10 years apart

    Kaare Christensen;Mikael Thinggaard;Anna Oksuzyan;Troels Steenstrup

  • The case for negative senescence

    James W. Vaupel;Annette Baudisch;Martin Dölling;Deborah A. Roach

Frequent Co-Authors

Matt McGue
Matt McGue University of Minnesota
Yi Zeng
Yi Zeng Peking University
Lene Christiansen
Lene Christiansen University of Southern Denmark
Vladimir M. Shkolnikov
Vladimir M. Shkolnikov Max Planck Society
Lars Bolund
Lars Bolund Aarhus University
Maxine Weinstein
Maxine Weinstein Georgetown University
Joris Deelen
Joris Deelen Max Planck Society
Thomas B. L. Kirkwood
Thomas B. L. Kirkwood Newcastle University
huanming yang
huanming yang Beijing Genomics Institute

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