Mariane Krause Jacob

Provost

It is the unipersonal authority of the University in charge of subrogating the President in case of absence or temporary impediment and carrying out all functions explicitly delegated by the President. Heads the Office of the Provost.

Duties

• Collaborates, together with the President, in the government of the University and represents it before all the instances determined by the Rector. 
• Participates actively, together with the Provost for Institutional Management and the Vice Presidents, in the University's strategic planning process, ensuring its progress and compliance, as well as the development of all necessary functions. 
• Proposes development policies and activities in the areas of arts, culture and heritage, mental health and welfare of the community in general, as well as gender equity, according to the principles and values that govern the University, and implements and coordinates plans in these areas with the corresponding agencies of the Office of the President. 

To learn more about the duties and functions of the Provost, read the Regulations of the Organizations that work with the Office of the President. 

Career

Marianne Krause holds a degree in Psychology from UC Chile, with postgraduate studies in Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences and a PhD in Psychology from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

She is currently a full professor at the UC Chile School of Psychology, where she has held numerous leadership positions, including Head of Department, Deputy Director of Research and Graduate Studies, Director of the Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy, and Director of the School. From March 2021 to March 2025, she served as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Her academic and professional work has focused on research into psychotherapeutic processes, depression, and psychosocial and community interventions. She has developed a research line on change processes in psychotherapy, creating a system for assessing psychotherapeutic change based on Generic Change Indicators, as well as the Therapeutic Activity Coding System (SCAT) for studying interactions within psychotherapeutic contexts. She is also an expert in qualitative methodology, which she applies in her research and shares through specialized courses and consulting services, both nationally and internationally.

At the institutional level, she served as a member of the CONICYT Council from 2017 to 2018 and was appointed its President in 2019, where she led the transition to the newly established National Agency for Research and Development (ANID).

Internationally, she chaired the Latin American Chapter of the Society for Psychotherapy Research from 2014 to 2016 and served as the global president of the organization from 2018 to 2019.

She has been serving as Provost of UC Chile since 2025.