Gabi de Bruïne is a PhD candidate at the Department of Criminology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her doctoral research is about eyewitness memory and credibility assessments in cross-cultural contexts. It is a collaborative project of the Amsterdam Laboratory of Legal Psychology (ALLP) and the Center of International Criminal Justice (CICJ). The project focuses on experimental comparisons of statements made by Sub-Saharan Africans and Western Europeans. Gabi completed two Master’s degrees at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, one in Criminology and one in International Crimes and Criminology. As part of her Master’s thesis, Gabi investigated cross-cultural differences in object recognition and depth perception, comparing asylum seekers from Sub-Saharan Africa to a matched Western control group. The findings of her thesis were published in Applied Cognitive Psychology. Furthermore, Gabi has worked on a Rwandan legal case as part of Project Reasonable Doubt. Within the project, she analysed many statements from Rwandan genocide survivors. She is interested in eyewitness memory, investigative interviewing and credibility assessments in cross-cultural settings and has a passion for the African continent where she spent six months during her bachelor's programme.
Besides research, Gabi teaches Legal Psychology in the Forensic Criminology minor curriculum and supervises master theses and students within Project Reasonable Doubt, in which groups of students investigate the evidence in closed criminal cases.
