Julia Korkman is a Senior Programme Officer at HEUNI (The European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United Nations) as well as Professor of Practice with the Faculty of Law, and Adjunct Professor in Legal Psychology at Åbo Akademi and co-leads the legal psychology research group LePÅ at Åbo Akademi. She is specialized memory in the legal context and has conducted research on among other things investigative interviewing, decision making in legal contexts, investigating alleged cases of crimes against children, eyewitness identifications, factors associated with rape victims’ tendencies to make police reports, psychological coercion in court cases of human trafficking, and asylum processes as co-PI of the research group PsychAID. At HEUNI, Dr Korkman is responsible for the planning and implementation of HEUNI’s EU and other international and national projects, especially regarding the rights of victims of crime, virtual justice, and developing the criminal justice process in an evidence-based and humane way. Julia is the current president of the European Association of Psychology and Law and a member of several other expert networks. She has received several prices for her work, including the Academic Excellence Award by the iIIRG (the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group), the Finnish Science Communication Prize 2025 by The Finnish Association of Science Editors and Journalists and the Finland-Swedish Psychologist of the Year Award 2025 by the Finnish Psychological Association.