Biedermann, Alex

Associate Professor at the School of Criminal Justice of the Faculty of Law, Criminal Justice and Public Administration of University of Lausanne (Switzerland).

His research focuses on evidential reasoning and decision-making at the intersection of forensic science and law. His work is multidisciplinary, involving forensic science, law and topics in probability and decision theory.

Former committee member of the Statistics and Law Section of the Royal Statistical Society and is currently a Council member of the International Association of Evidence Science. He has served on the writing committees for the “European Network of Forensic Science Institutes Guideline for Evaluative Reporting in Forensic Science” and the Court Primer “The Use of Statistics in Legal Proceedings”, jointly published by the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

He teaches and writes in English, French and German. He has been a visiting researcher in Australia, China, Italy, the UK and the USA. He teaches scientific evidence interpretation and decision analysis in Lausanne, with visiting appointments at partner institutions abroad.