Pierre-Yves Brandt is Professor for the Psychology of Religion at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His interests include children’s representations of God, psychological construction of religious identity, religious coping among seniors and among patients with schizophrenia, and spiritual care in hospitals, care homes and home care. He was the dean of the Faculty of Theology and Sciences of Religions (FTSR), University of Lausanne (2006-2010) and the chair of the Institute of Social Sciences of Religions (ISSR) of the FTSR (2016-2020). He was the president of the International Association for the Psychology of Religion (IAPR) from 2015 to 2019, and is the President of the Fondation des Archives Jean Piaget (since 2001).