Professor Friedrich Lösel, Ph.D., is an emeritus Professor at the Institute of Criminology (IoC), University of Cambridge, and the Institute of Psychology (IoP) at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany. At both places he is still carrying out externally funded research project as an honorary fellow. FL was director of the IoC from 2005-12 and director of the IoP from 1987-2011. Formerly, he was professor of psychology at the Universities of Bielefeld and Erlangen, a tenured senior lecturer at Bamberg University and a lecturer at Erlangen University. He was also director of the Social Sciences Research Centre at Nuremberg and principal investigator at the Advanced Research Centres "Prevention and Intervention in Childhood and Adolescence" and "Socialization and Communication" of the German Research Foundation. He is a chartered forensic psychologist, member of Wolfson College, and Senior Professor at the Psychological University Berlin.