Ursula M. Staudinger

Rector, Technische Universität Dresden | Professor of Interdisciplinary Aging Science

Today, people live around 30 years longer than 100 years ago. We are healthier, more active and we have a higher standard of living.

2017-08-31T12:05:01+00:00

https://www.ursulastaudinger.com/testimonials/today-people-live-around-30-years-longer-than-100-years-ago-we-are-healthier-more-active-and-we-have-a-higher-standard-of-living/

Mental productivity can be increased even in age.

Ursula M. Staudinger

2017-08-31T12:05:12+00:00

https://www.ursulastaudinger.com/testimonials/mental-productivity-can-be-increased-even-in-age/

The human brain remains modifiable well into old age.

Ursula M. Staudinger

2017-08-31T12:05:30+00:00

https://www.ursulastaudinger.com/testimonials/the-human-brain-remains-modifiable-well-into-old-age/

Ursula M. Staudinger

Talk at the GCRI

UrsulaAdmin Allgemein February 4, 2015January 2, 2018

On 28 January, Ursula Staudinger was invited by the German Center of Research and Innovation (GCRI) to speak on cognitive plasticity in adulthood. In her talk, she presented the concept of in vivo (real-life) plasticity and discussed her research focusing on the opportunities and challenges of increases in average life expectancy. Read more

Aging in Chile

UrsulaAdmin Allgemein January 20, 2015January 2, 2018Aging in Chile

Ursula Staudinger visited Chile at the beginning of January. Her visit took place in the framework of the project “When Does Retirement Optimize Health? Causal Effects of Retirement Timing on Health Outcomes and Healthy Behavior of Older Americans and Chileans”, financed by the Columbia-Chile Fund established by Columbia and Chile’s National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT). Read more

Live Talk at the Nobel Week Dialogue

UrsulaAdmin Allgemein December 9, 2014January 2, 2018

At this year’s „Nobel Week Dialogue“ on 9 December, a selected group of Nobel laureates, world leading scientists as well as politicians and intellectuals discussed the implications of an aging world population. In her plenary contribution „Change and Growth – a Paradox?“ Ursula Staudinger spoke about the opportunities of societies of longer lives. Based on her research, she challenges the notion that aging and shrinking populations put an end to economic growth and innovation. Read more

Award Ceremony in Braunschweig

UrsulaAdmin Allgemein November 22, 2014January 2, 2018Ursula Staudinger receives Braunschweig Research Prize 2014

On 21 November, Braunschweig’s Mayor Ulrich Markurth presented the Braunschweig Research Prize 2014 to Ursula Staudinger at the award ceremony with 120 invited guests. Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil, Professor Jürgen Hesselbach, President of Braunschweig Technical University, and Professor Jörg Hacker, President of the German National Academy Leopoldina, honored her outstanding research on the plasticity of the aging process. Read more

First Columbia Aging Workshop

UrsulaAdmin Allgemein November 14, 2014January 10, 2018

On November 11, the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and the Columbia Aging Center joined forces to present the first Columbia Aging Workshop “The Aging of Mind, Brain and Behavior in Context”. More than 50 Columbia researchers – as well as President Bollinger and other University administrators – attended the workshop that highlighted the University’s commitment to advancing interdisciplinary research on aging. Read more