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Dr Isabel Picornell is a consultant forensic linguist and Director of QEDforensics, which provides forensic linguistic services to the corporate, investigative, and intelligence sector. Isabel holds a PhD from Aston University and is a Visiting Research Fellow with the Institute for Text Analysis (Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics). Her research interest is authorship style in deceptive contexts. She is Immediate Past President of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguists, a certified Expert Witness (CUBS), and a certified fraud examiner (ACFE-retired).
Dr Krzysztof Kredens is Professor of Forensic Linguistics at Aston University and Director of the University’s Institute for Forensic Linguistics. His specialist areas are questioned authorship analysis, issues of language competence and interpretation of disputed meanings. He has academic qualifications, publications and casework experience in these areas. Krzysztof has provided expert reports in criminal cases, instructed by prosecution and defence solicitors; and in corporate contexts, instructed by large multinational companies. He has experience of cross examination in English courts of law, including at the Central Criminal Court (The Old Bailey).
Coordinators
Dr Dominic Schmitz (2018 – ongoing)
Acting Professor of English Linguistics at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Janina Esser (2019 – ongoing)
Mathematician, Association for Diversity in Linguistics, Germany
Jennifer Keller (2026 – ongoing)
PhD Student of Linguistics at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Natascha Rohde (2018 – 2022)
PhD Student of Forensic Linguistics at Aston University, Birmingham, England
Viktoria Schneider (2022)
PhD English Linguistics, Alumna of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Lecturers
Dr Isabel Picornell (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2026, 2027)
Dr Krzysztof Kredens (2022, 2024, 2026, 2027)
Dr Annina Heini (2023)
Dr Ria Perkins (2018, 2019, 2021)
Funding
Partners
English Language and Linguistics, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (2022, 2023, 2024, 2026, 2027)
FörderLinK Düsseldorf e.V., Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (2022, 2023)
Student Council for Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Cologne (2018, 2019)