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Federica Klaus received her M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Zurich in Switzerland and conducted her residency in psychiatry at the Psychiatric University Hospital of Zurich. After a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation) at UC San Diego, she became Director of Research in the Center for Empathy and Compassion Training in Medical Education at the Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion at UC San Diego. Her research interests include the relationship between psychological and biological mechanisms, positive psychological traits and transdiagnostic aspects of mental illness with a focus on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
