Pninit Russo-Netzer, PhD, is an Associate Professor, author, speaker, and researcher. Her research focuses on meaning in life, existential psychology, well-being, resilience, spirituality, and post-traumatic growth across the lifespan. She heads the Community, Meaning, and Recovery (C.M.R.) Research and Development Center and the Resilience and Optimal Development Lab at Achva Academic College. She is also the founder and director of the Compass Institute for the Study and Application of Meaning in Life and leads the Academic Training Program in Logotherapy (meaning-oriented psychotherapy) at Tel Aviv University.
Prof. Russo-Netzer serves as an academic advisor and consultant to institutions and organizations worldwide, including the World Trade Center Health Registry (WTCHR). She serves on the Council of Advisors for the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA), is an Associate Editor at Current Psychology, and has co-authored or co-edited several books, including Meaning in Positive and Existential Psychology (Springer), Clinical Perspectives on Meaning: Positive and Existential Psychotherapy (Springer), Existential Authenticity (Springer), and Finding Meaning: An Existential Quest in Post-Modern Israel (Oxford University Press).
She is the recipient of the Spirituality and Meaning Researcher Award from the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) and the Early Career Award from the International Society for the Science of Existential Psychology (ISSEP).

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