Full Professor
Florida International University
Dr. Schreiber Compo earned her Ph.D. in Legal Psychology at the University of Muenster in Germany. She is currently a full professor in the Legal Psychology Doctoral Program at Florida International University. As a researcher, she is both interested in potentially detrimental and beneficial interviewing techniques and their underlying cognitive and social mechanisms to improve the quality and quantity of witness and victim recall. She is also examining real-world investigators’ perceptions, experiences and behaviors in a variety of settings including witness and victim interviewing and forensic expertise. Dr. Schreiber Compo has been an invited speaker on numerous occasions including the International Association of Forensic Toxicologists, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Major Cities Chiefs of Police Association, the Arizona Forensic Science Academy, the International Forensic Research Institute, the Miami-Dade Forensic Services Bureau, the Dade-County and Allegheny County Public Defender’s Office, the Texas Criminal Defense Attorneys Association, the Research Unit for Criminal, Legal and Investigative Psychology at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, Wake Forest Law School’s Innocence and Justice Clinic, and Wofford College. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles and chapters and has (co) authored over 100 presentations at national and international conferences. She is a member of the Human Factors and the Human Forensic Biology Committee of the Organization of Scientific Advisory Committees (OSAC) and has worked with several law enforcement agencies on research and investigative interviewing training. Her Investigative Interviewing lab involves a variety of undergraduate and graduate projects in the area of witness memory, investigative interviewing, and forensic expertise. Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Justice, the National Science Foundation, the Swedish Research Council, and The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Science.
