Vanessa Yarza Navarro-Schär

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Vanessa Yarza Navarro-Schär is a PhD candidate at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and a Visiting PhD Student at the MIT AgeLab. Her work centers on trust: she investigates how trust, distrust, and trust repair toward companies and AI systems emerge. She earned her MSc in Applied Psychology from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW), where she now serves on the board of the FHNW Applied Psychology Alumni Association.