Friedrich Lösel

Friedrich Lösel (born July 28, 1945)^[1] is a German forensic psychologist, criminologist and emeritus professor at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology. He was the director of the Institute from 2005 to 2012; as director, he pursued a focus on studying crime committed across the life-course.^[2] He is also a professor of psychology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, where he was the director of the Institute of Psychology from 1987 to 2011. He was formerly the director of the Social Sciences Research Center at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg from 2002 to 2005.^[3][4] He is the past president of the European Association of Psychology and Law and the current president of the Academy of Experimental Criminology.^[4][5] In 2006, he was one of two recipients of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, with John Braithwaite.^[6]