Dr. Vincent Denault

Biography

Vincent Denault currently holds the position of Assistant Professor at the University of Montreal’s School of Criminology. He previously occupied postdoctoral research positions at McGill University’s Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and the International Centre for Comparative Criminology at the University of Montreal’s Public Law Research Center. Additionally, he has served as a Research Consultant in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has been a Lecturer at academic institutions, including the Faculty of Law at the University of Sherbrooke and the Department of Communication at the University of Montreal. He earned his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Montreal in 2020, and a Master of Laws from the University of Quebec in Montreal in 2015. His research primarily focuses on issues related to witness credibility, deception detection, and nonverbal behavior. He is a co-founder of the Center for Studies in Nonverbal Communication Sciences and the Deception Research Society. In addition to his academic work, he functions as a scientific consultant, lawyer, and coroner, investigating deaths resulting from negligence in obscure violent circumstances.

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