Mariane Krause Jacob

Provost

The University official that directs the Office of the Provost and can fill in for the president during a temporary absence. The provost is named by the president and serves in a position of trust. 

Duties

• Collaborates with the University president.
• Coordinates the strategic planning process of the University. Ensures progress and compliance with the development plan.
• Sets institutional analysis duties, promotes quality of life among students, manages the library system, and drives the University’s participation in public policy and international relations.

To review the duties of the provost, please 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.