prof. dr. Annelies Vredeveldt

Full Professor, Faculty of Law, Criminology

Full Professor, A-LAB

Full Professor, Research Programmes - Law, Empirical and Normative Studies

Personal information

Annelies Vredeveldt is a Professor of Legal Psychology at the Department of Criminology at VU Amsterdam. She is co-founder and director of the Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology (ALLP). She currently leads an ERC Starting Grant research team that investigates eyewitness memory in cross-cultural settings. Prof. Vredeveldt regularly appears as an expert witness in criminal cases and serves on advisory committees of the Netherlands Register of Court Experts and the Dutch National Police. She coordinates the Psychology course in the international Law in Society programme, and acts as a supervisor for Project Reasonable Doubt, in which potentially dubious criminal convictions are re-evaluated.

Website: www.annelies.vredeveldt.com

Research

Annelies Vredeveldt conducts research on eyewitness memory and investigative interviewing. She obtained an ERC Starting Grant for a five-year project on eyewitness memory in cross-cultural contexts. She leads a team of two postdocs and two PhD students to investigate this question in different contexts, from South African police interviews to Rwandan genocide cases to eyewitness experiments with asylum seekers.

Education

Annelies Vredeveldt coordinates the Psychology course in the Law and Society bachelor. She teaches on basic concepts in psychology and applies them to the legal system, with interactive lectures and active tutorials in which the Mixed Classroom teaching method plays a crucial role.

Vredeveldt also coordinates the Masters elective course Project Reasonable Doubt. She coordinates all supervisors and serves as a supervisor herself. She instructs and advises teams of 8-12 students investigating selected criminal cases. Past investigations have contributed to the re-opening of closed cases.

Ancillary activities

Gerechtelijk deskundige | Nederland | Adviseur | 2014-01-01 - present
Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology | Amsterdam | Directeur | 2017-01-01 - present
Nederlands Register Gerechtelijk Deskundigen | Utrecht | Adviseur | 2017-04-25 - present
Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition | New York | Bestuurder | 2018-01-01 - 2025-12-31
Studiecentrum Rechtspleging (SSR) | Utrecht | Gastdocent | 2023-11-01 - present

Ancillary activities are updated daily