Vincent Denault (UdeM)

Vincent Denault is an Assistant Professor at the School of Criminology at the Université de Montréal. Previously, he held a postdoctoral research position in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University, as well as at the International Centre for Comparative Criminology and the Public Law Research Centre at the Université de Montréal. He has served as a research consultant for the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has lectured at various academic institutions, including the Faculty of Law at the Université de Sherbrooke and both the Department of Communication and the Faculty of Law at the Université de Montréal. He earned a PhD in Communication from the Université de Montréal in 2020 and a Master's degree in Law from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 2015. His research primarily focuses on issues related to witness credibility, lie detection, and nonverbal behavior. Outside of academia, Vincent Denault is a scientific consultant, lawyer, and coroner, investigating deaths resulting from negligence or occurring under obscure or violent circumstances.