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Switzerland
Daniela S. Jopp is Professor for Adult Development and Old Age at the Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and a member of the Swiss Competence Center for Life Course Research LIVES.
Prof. Jopp is an internationally recognised expert on old age and centenarian research. She has initiated an international network of centenarian studies with parallel methodologies, including the Fordham Centenarian Study (USA) and the Second Heidelberg Centenarian Study (Germany). She is also the Lead Principal Investigator of the ongoing interdisciplinary SWISS100 study, the first nationwide centenarian study in Switzerland. The aim of these studies is to investigate what characterises centenarians and their life at the age of 100; which features or behaviors may have contributed to their exceptional longevity; and which factors enable high quality of life at this very old age. A particular interest lies in social and cultural aspects as well as psychological strengths which promote aging well.
Prof. Jopp studied psychology at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and completed her doctorate at the Berlin Graduate Program for Psychiatry and Psychology of Aging. She was a research associate at the German Center for Aging Research, Heidelberg University and at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Before accepting her current position in 2014, she was Professor of Applied Developmental Psychology at Fordham University in New York, USA.
