Professor, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Clinical Psychology, Interaction and Psychotherapy Research and Director of the Institute of Compassionate Awareness and Interdependence Research and Practice – IN-CARE, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim, Germany (https://www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/aguilar-raab/). She completed her habilitation in psychology (Venia Legendi) at the Faculty of Behavioral and Empirical Cultural Sciences (2023) and her doctorate at the Faculty of Medicine (PhD, 2011), both at Heidelberg University, Germany. 

Before moving to the University of Mannheim last year, she worked for over 10 years at the Institute for Medical Psychology at Heidelberg University Hospital, where she set up the psychotherapeutic university outpatient clinic and directed it for three years. She developed a research program for the implementation of compassion-based interventions in a clinical context – in a multi-person setting such as couples and families. 

Corina is a researcher, licensed systemic and psychodynamic psychotherapist and supervisor as well as senior teacher for Cognitively-Based Compassion Training CBCT® and director of the Social, Emotional and Ethical Learning SEEL® Program (https://www.see-learning.ch/) as well as of the CBCT® teacher training program in Germany (Emory University, Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-based Ethics) and a member of the Steering Board of SEEL® Europe.

She is currently leading the scientific part of the Empathie macht Schule EmS project (https://www.empathie-macht-schule.de/) – which follows a whole-school implementation approach in six elementary schools in Berlin as part of a longitudinal control group design study, qualitatively and quantitatively examining the impact and process of the empathy training (Helle Jensen: https://www.ddif.de/das-institut/jesper-juul-helle-jensen) at the level of school staff and students. 

Her research and teaching interests include social relationships and health, its associations with contemplative  practices, especially mindfulness and compassion for self and others in various contexts, including couple and family systems as well as educational systems. She aims at further developing the understanding and practice of interpersonal emotion regulation enriched with empathy and compassion. She has been teaching the practice of compassion for over 10 years in academic contexts and in other organizations. She has been a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism for more than 20 years and is part of the supervisory board of the cultural Institute Tibethaus Germany (https://www.tibethaus.com). She developed the contemplative-based program SÄLRIG for working with one’s own impermanence and for caring for people in the last phase of life, aiming at being in touch with facets of vulnerability and in-depth resonance of compassion. 

In essence, it is her main concern to encourage systemic thinking and the perception of interdependent processes, to promote compassionate care as the most important foundation in various areas of society and the educational contexts as well as to contribute to a sustainable shift of and in our lives and relationships with self, others and the environment.