Jean-Marie Robine
Jean-Marie Robine is a French social scientist, who works in the field of demography and gerontology, and is an author and journalist, who is best known as being the co-validator of the longevity of Jeanne Calment, the oldest verified supercentenarian of all time, with whom he collaborated.
Robine has been instrumental in organizing international efforts to study supercentenarians, through workshops held at the Max [Planck Institute for Demographic Research] and by founding the International Database on Longevity. Robine currently has the largest European supercentenarian dataset, and also collaborates with Japanese demographer Yasuhiko Saito.
Publications
- Jeanne Calment: From Van Gogh's Time to Ours : 122 Extraordinary Years by Michel Allard, Victor Lebre, Jean-Marie Robine and Jeanne Calment
- Longevity and Frailty by J.R. Carey, Jean-Marie Robine, J.-P. Michel and Yves Christen
- Determining Health Expectancies by Jean-Marie Robine, Carol Jagger, Colin D. Mathers and Eileen M. Crimmins
- Brain and Longevity by Caleb E. Finch, Jean-Marie Robine and Yves Christen
- Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-Old Population by Jean-Marie Robine, Eileen M. Crimmins, Shiro Horiuchi and Yi Zeng
- Sex and Longevity: Sexuality, Gender, Reproduction, Parenthood by Jean-Marie Robine, Thomas B. L. Kirkwood and Michel Allard
- Longer Life and Healthy Aging by Yi Zeng, Eileen M. Crimmins, Yves Carrière and Jean-Marie Robine
- The Paradoxes of Longevity by Jean-Marie Robine, Bernard Forette, Claudio Franceschi and Michel Allard
Selected journal articles
- Survival beyond Age 100: The Case of Japan by Jean-Marie Robine and Yasuhiko Saito
- Population and Development Review, Vol. 29, Supplement: Life Span: Evolutionary, Ecological, and Demographic Perspectives, pp. 208–228