Dr. Michiel de Vries Robbé is psychologist and senior researcher at the department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychosocial Care, of the Amsterdam University medical center (VUmc) in The Netherlands. In addition, he is affiliated as senior researcher with the Netherlands Institute of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology and as associate professor with the department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences of McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. His research focuses primarily on risk assessment and its applicability and implementation in forensic practice. In particular, he is involved in the development of measures for risk screening and the assessment of protective factors for (violence) risk for adults, juveniles and children. He is co-author of the Structured Assessment of Protective Factors for violence risk (SAPROF), SAPROF-Youth Version (SAPROF-YV), SAPROF-Child Version (SAPROF-CV), SAPROF-Sexual Offending (SAPROF-SO), Female Additional Manual (FAM), Risk Screener-Violence (RS-V) and Risk Screener-Youth (RS-Y).