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European Latsis Prize 2011

This year's European Latsis Prize is awarded to Professor James W. Vaupel, of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, for his contributions to research on ageing and lifespan, and his profound influence on demographic research.

James Vaupel was born in New York, USA, on 2 May 1945, and lives in Kerteminde in Denmark but works in Rostock, Germany, where he is the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. He is honoured for a lifetime of groundbreaking research into the biology of ageing, the statistics of senescence and the connection between public health and longevity. His key papers on mortality and lifespan have been each cited many hundreds of times, and he has been honoured by the Ipsen Foundation in France and twice by the Population Association of America. He is also Professor of Demography and Epidemiology at the Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark and Research Professor at Duke University’s Population Research Unit. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
 

The prize, valued at 100,000 Swiss Francs (80,000 Euros) is financed by the Geneva-based Latsis Foundation. Is has been established in 1999 and is awarded by the European Science Foundation to individuals or a group who, in the opinion of their peers, have made the greatest contribution to a particular field of research.

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