Dr. Kloft is a postdoctoral researcher in the fields of psychopharmacology and forensic psychology with an international education from various high-class universities. She has developed a strong passion to conceptualize experiments, collect data in different experimental or field studies, and analyse this data to provide meaningful and interesting scientific publications in the current world of (forensic) psychology research. Her major interests are the areas of psychopharmacology, forensic psychology, as well as clinical and developmental psychology. She has published numerous papers in the area of drugs and the reliability of statements in journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 

Professor Schreiber Compo is a professor in the Department of Psychology and part of the Legal Psychology Doctoral Program at Florida International University. She is both interested in potentially detrimental and beneficial interviewing techniques and their underlying cognitive and social mechanisms to improve the quality and quantity of witness and victim recall. She is further interested in examining real-world investigators’ perceptions, experiences and behaviors in a variety of settings including witness and victim interviewing and forensic expertise. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, and has (co) authored over 100 presentations at national and international conferences. She is also a member of the Human Factors and the Human Forensic Biology Committee of the Organization of Scientific Advisory Committees (OSAC), has worked with several law enforcement agencies on research and investigative interviewing training and has consulted in various legal cases. Her I-LAB involves a variety of undergraduate and graduate projects in the area of witness memory, investigative interviewing and forensic expertise. Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Justice, the National Science Foundation, the Swedish Research Council and The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Science.

Dr. Angelica Hagsand is an Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research is focused on the interdisciplinary and stretches between cognitive psychology, legal psychology, social psychology, biological psychology, addiction psychology and personality psychology. Specifically, Dr. Hagsand’s interest concerns both the acute effects of alcohol on cognition and behavior (i.e. witness memory of a crime, how alcohol affect suspects during interrogation), and the long-term consequences of alcohol-dependence.

Dr. Hayley Cullen is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Newscastle, Australia. Dr. Cullen is especially interested in memory and memory errors in legal settings, related to wrongful convictions, for example. She is also passionate about conducting research that can improve legal procedures and victim’s access to justice. Her research is specifically focused on factors that can affect eyewitness recall and (mis)identifications, identifying factors that can affect jury decision making.

Prof. Vivienne de Vogel is a psychologist and works as professor of Forensic Mental Health Care at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (endowed chair), Maastricht University and at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, with the research group Working with Mandated Clients. Furthermore, she works as researcher at the Forensische Zorgspecialisten, a forensic psychiatric center in Utrecht, the Netherlands and as Scientific Advisor Adviescollege Verloftoetsing TBS. Her research focuses on gender-responsive working in forensic care, violence risk assessment, communication and management, trauma-informed care, inpatient violence, and mental resilience of forensic mental health professionals. She developed several risk assessment tools together with colleagues, like the FAM for women and the SAPROF for protective factors.

Amelia Mindthoff received her Ph.D. in Legal Psychology from Florida International University (2020) and is currently a post-doctoral scholar in the Applied Cognition Laboratory. Dr. Mindthoff’s research primarily focuses on examining the efficacy of evidence-based investigative interviewing methods. She also studies juror perceptions and decision making regarding various topics (e.g., interrogations, forensic evidence). Dr. Mindthoff’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the American Psychology-Law Society.

Dr. Gawrylowicz is a lecturer in Psychology at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland. She has a special interest in memory in applied settings. Specifically, dr. Gawrylowicz’s research investigates factors that can positively and negatively affect memory recall in applied settings, such as eyewitness testimony or police interrogations and interviews. Recently, she has been conducting research exploring how alcohol influences (eyewitness) memory.

Coral Dando, Ph.D., is a Professor of Forensic Psychology at the University of Westminster, London. She is a Chartered Scientist, a Chartered Psychologist and Consultant Forensic Psychologist. Prior to returning to education, Coral served over 10 years as a London police officer. Accordingly, her research is heavily influenced by the real-world challenges of criminal investigation and is centered on developing psychologically informed techniques for detecting deception in dynamic, real world security contexts and supporting witnesses and victims of crime to remember and recount their experiences. Coral’s research is funded by the UK and US governments, and she has worked extensively with police, and security organisations worldwide, including the US Dept. of Homeland Security, the FBI, International Criminal Court (The Hague), the Romanian Intelligence Agency, and the UK Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure. Coral has written in excess of 50 peer reviewed international scientific journal articles and book chapters, and regularly writes for newspapers and social media outlets.

Dr. Crossland is lecturer in Psychology at the University of Winchester, England (UK). Dr. Crossland’s primary research interest pertains to improving the recall of eyewitnesses. Her focus is predominately on the investigative interviewing and line-up decisions of individuals who are under the influence of alcohol at the time of witnessing a crime. For example, her doctoral thesis is titled “Investigating the Effects of Alcohol on Eyewitness Memory” and she has published on the use of the Enhanced Cognitive Interview and the Alcohol Myopia Theory with intoxicated witnesses.