Christina Maslach, Professor of Psychology, is one of the pioneering researchers on occupational burnout. She is co-author of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), the most widely used research tool in the field of burnout, and has written and edited numerous books and articles about burnout.
Maslach received her A.B. in Social Relations from Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1967 and later earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University in 1971. She was instrumental in bringing the Stanford Prison Experiment to an end only six days into the experiment after evaluating the impact of the study on its participants.
Christina Maslach is Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. She was named Professor of the Year in 1997 and has since been recognized with a variety of honors as a result of her groundbreaking work in social psychology and its application to contemporary problems. She is the founding co-editor of the e-journal, Burnout Research, which launched in 2014, is also a core researcher with Healthy Workplaces, an interdisciplinary center at the University of California, Berkeley, and is focusing on the positive antithesis of burnout, work engagement, as a better framework for developing interventions.