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Dr. Annelies Vredeveldt is a legal psychologist and works as Associate Professor at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at VU University Amsterdam. She is co-founder and director of the Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology (ALLP). She obtained a Starting Grant from the European Research Council to assemble a research team to investigate eyewitness testimony in cross-cultural settings. Dr. 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 teaches the Psychology course in the international Law in Society programme at the VU and coordinates Project Reasonable Doubt, in which potentially dubious criminal convictions are re-evaluated.