Stuart Jay Olshansky is a professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago concentrating on biodemography and gerontology and is co-founder and Chief Scientist at Lapetus Solutions, Inc.[1] He is also a research associate at the Center on Aging (University of Chicago) and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
The focus of his research has been on estimates of the upper limits to human longevity, exploring the health and public policy implications associated with individual and population aging, forecasts of the size, survival, and age structure of the population, pursuit of the scientific means to slow aging in people (The Longevity Dividend), and global implications of the re-emergence of infectious and parasitic diseases, and insurance linked securities.
[3] His work on biodemography has been funded by a Special Emphasis Research Career Award and an Independent Scientist Award from the National Institute on Aging and a research grant from the U.S. Social Security Administration starting in 1991.
[2] In 2011 he published an article on the longevity of United States presidents in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
[10] Austad and Olshansky put $150 each into an investment fund, with the money and interest to go to the winner, or his descendants, in 2150.