Friedrich Lösel (born July 28, 1945)[1] is a German forensic psychologist, criminologist and emeritus professor at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology.
He was the director of the Institute from 2005 to 2012; as director, he pursued a focus on studying crime committed across the life-course.
He was formerly the director of the Social Sciences Research Center at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg from 2002 to 2005.
[3][4] He is the past president of the European Association of Psychology and Law and the current president of the Academy of Experimental Criminology.
[4][5] In 2006, he was one of two recipients of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, with John Braithwaite.