Discover the RTS interview of Marianne Schmid Mast, one of the EU top 1% most cited researchers in psychiatry and psychology.
Marianne Schmid Mast received her Master in Psychology in 1996 and her Ph.D. in psychology in 2000, both from University of Zurich. She then continued her research at Northeastern University, Boston, USA, in the Social and Personality Psychology Area, working with Judith A. Hall. Back in Switzerland at the University of Zurich in Social and Health Psychology, she was appointed assistant professor in Social Psychology at the University of Fribourg. In 2006 she became a full professor of Personnel Psychology at the Department of Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Neuchatel and she was appointed full professor of Organizational Behavior at the Faculty of Business and Economics, HEC, at the University of Lausanne, in August 2014. She currently is an associate editor of the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior and a member of the editorial board of the journal Leadership Quarterly. In 2018, she was nominated as one of the 50 most influential living psychologists worldwide and has been appointed a Fellow of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, as well as a Division 8 Fellow of the American Psychology Association (APA) for her extraordinary, distinctive and longstanding contributions to the science of personality and social psychology.