Prof. Lilly Shanahan leads the research focus "Risk and Resilience" at the UZH Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development and is a professor at the UZH Department of Psychology.  Previously, she was a professor at several US universities (e.g., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).  

The goal of Prof. Shanahan's research is to understand risk and protective factors for the development of psychopathology (e.g., depression, anxiety, substance use) in the first decades of life. In whom, when, and how does psychopathology (or its precursors) develop? And who is protected from it, in what ways, despite significant risks?  

Prof. Shanahan is co-director of the population-based, longitudinal "Zurich Project on Social Development from Childhood into Adulthood (z-proso)" and also works with other population-based longitudinal studies, such as the "Great Smoky Mountains Study (GSMS)" and "The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health)."