Nadine Deslauriers-Varin, Ph.D., is Full Professor of Criminology at Université Laval and Deputy director of the International Center for Comparative Criminology (CICC-UL). Her research focuses on serial violent and sexual crime investigations, offender decision-making, behavioral, situational and environmental analysis of criminal events, with an emphasis on evidence-based approaches to investigative techniques and practices. She works closely with law enforcement agencies, providing advanced training in investigative interviewing and applied profiling. Dr. Deslauriers-Varin is Editor of the Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology and a member of several international research networks in behavioral and investigative criminology. She mentors numerous graduate students in the fields of offender decision-making, crime scripts and events, and criminal investigations and investigative interviewing.