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Kristina Suchotzki is a Professor of Psychological Legal Assessment at Philipps-Universität Marburg, where she leads a research group focused on deception detection, credibility assessment, and the psychological mechanisms underlying lying. She is affiliated with the Department of Psychology, specifically within the research unit on Psychological Legal Assessment with a focus on Legal Psychology.
Her research interests center on the psychological basis of deception, using behavioral, autonomic, and neural measures to detect lies and concealed information. She investigates emotional modulation of memory for crime-related details, credibility assessment, and the application of reaction time-based tests in forensic settings. Her work bridges experimental psychology with real-world legal applications.
Her recent publications reveal a strong trend in deception detection methodologies, particularly reaction time and ocular-based concealed information tests, with increasing integration of artificial intelligence and forensic applicability in prison populations. She frequently publishes in top-tier journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, and Acta Psychologica, often in collaboration with leading researchers in the field.
She has received numerous scientific awards, including:
- Emmy Noether Grant (DFG)
- Ig-Nobelpreis (2016)
- Best Paper Award from the University of Würzburg (2017)
- Karl-Marbe Prize (2016)
- PostDoc Plus Funding (University of Würzburg)
- Multiple travel grants from the Flemish Research Organization
She advises PhD students including Verena Jacobs and Tabea Wächtershäuser. Her research is supported by third-party funding, most notably the DFG Emmy Noether Grant. She leads a dynamic research team and is involved in academic self-governance, serving as spokeswoman for the Legal Psychology section of the German Society for Psychology and as a member of university ethics committees.
She is actively involved in several labs and research groups, including the Psychological Legal Assessment unit at Philipps-Universität Marburg, and collaborates with institutions across Europe. Her team regularly posts job openings for doctoral researchers and student assistants, indicating ongoing and expanding research activities.
