معرفی
Dr. Hylke Jellema is an Assistant Professor at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Utrecht University, and holds a postdoctoral position at the University of Groningen's Transboundary Legal Studies. His research focuses on rational criminal proof mechanisms, Bayesian reasoning in legal contexts, and preventing miscarriages of justice through evidence evaluation. He defended his PhD thesis cum laude on integrating Bayesian and explanation-based approaches to criminal proof. Currently, he works on truth-efficiency tensions in criminal investigations and defendant statement veracity evaluation under the 'Preventing Miscarriages of Justice' NWO project.
Education background includes advanced training in both law and philosophy, reflected in his interdisciplinary research spanning legal theory and empirical legal studies. His work emphasizes probabilistic reasoning fallacies in judicial processes, as seen in his contributions to judge training programs and empirical testing of legal decision-making frameworks.
Key awards include his PhD distinction. He collaborates on grants related to forensic epistemology and criminal justice reform, with active participation in multidisciplinary teams focusing on evidence reliability and judicial error reduction.
