About

Vincent Denault currently holds the position of Assistant Professor at the University of Montreal’s School of Criminology. Previously, he occupied postdoctoral research positions at McGill University’s Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, as well as at the International Centre for Comparative Criminology and the University of Montreal’s Public Law Research Center. Additionally, he has served as a Research Consultant at the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and as a Lecturer at several academic institutions, including the Faculty of Law at the University of Sherbrooke, as well as the Department of Communication and the Faculty of Law at the University of Montreal. He earned a 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. Vincent Denault is the co-founder of the Center for Studies in Nonverbal Communication Sciences of the Research Center of the Montreal Mental Health University Institute and the co-founder of the Deception Research Society. Outside academia, he also works as a scientific consultant, lawyer, and coroner, investigating deaths resulting from negligence or occurring in obscure or violent circumstances.

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