Valentin Amrhein (born 1 April 1971 in Lübeck) is a German-Swiss professor of zoology at the University of Basel and science journalist.

[1][2][3] Together with Sander Greenland and others, he is a critic of significance thresholds in science[4][5] and he draws attention to misunderstandings of p-values.

[6] He is author of a comment in the journal Nature on statistical significance[4] that had the highest online attention score of all research outputs ever screened by Altmetric.

[7] Amrhein spent his school years in Bonn[8] and studied biology at the University of Basel between 1992 and 1999.

Since 2006, Amrhein has taught ornithology, conservation biology and statistics at the Zoological Institute of the University of Basel.