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Professor Friedrich Lösel, Ph.D., is Director of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, and Professor of Psychology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, where he was director of the Institute of Psychology and the Social Sciences Research Centre until 2005. He is also a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. Formerly, he was professor of psychology at the Universities of Bielefeld and Erlangen, a university senior lecturer at Bamberg University and a lecturer at Erlangen University. He was also a project director at the Advanced Research Centres “Prevention and Intervention in Childhood and Adolescence” and “Socialization and Communication” of the German Research Council. In recognition of his scientific work, he has received various honours including the Award for Lifetime Achievement of the European Association of Psychology and Law, the Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology, an honorary Doctor of Science from Glasgow Caledonian University, the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, and the German Psychology Prize. He was also elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology. |