Friedrich Lösel Editor & Author

Friedrich Lösel is Emeritus Professor and past Director of the Institute of Psychology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, and the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University. For his broad range of research and activities he received five awards from the American Society of Criminology, and the Joan McCord Award, German Psychology Prize, Beccaria Gold Medal, and Stockholm Prize in Criminology.

Irina Jugl received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). She was a research assistant at FAU and published on prevention programs against extremism, left-wing and female extremism. Currently, she works as researcher specializing in extremism prevention at the State Criminal Police Office of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Sonja King received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). She was a research assistant in projects on extremism and radicalization at FAU and published on extremism prevention and related topics. Currently, she is a scientific officer at the Research Center on Terrorism/Extremism of the German Federal Police Office.

Doris Bender wassenior lecturer at the Institute of Psychology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). She worked at various research projects and published on resilience in childhood, biosocial origins of delinquency, developmental prevention, offender treatment, school bullying, and extremism. Currently, she is Co-PI of the FAU-project EFFEKT which focuses on child and family-oriented prevention.