He is twice past President and current Executive Director of the Society of Police and Criminal Psychology. He has been chosen as the American Representative to the International Law Enforcement and Criminalistics Academy in Rome, Italy. Dr. Aumiller has spoken and consulted at over 400 corporations, hospitals, conventions, colleges, and police organizations around the world, and was a regular guest lecturer at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Among his consulting arrangements in the past are the FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit, FBI Hostage Rescue Team, DEA, various Italian Police agencies, and the Singapore Police Department. He has been a psychological consultant to the staff of numerous electronic and print media including the New York Times, CNN, NBC News, CNBC, Court TV, Dateline NBC, National Public Radio, The Wall Street Journal, Newsday, the Associated Press, Reuters News Service, and a number of monthly magazines. He has worked in crisis and terrorist situations across the US, both Trade Tower Bombings, the African Embassy Bombings, TWA Flight 800, Postal Shootings in NY and Boston Area, and he worked for the National Science Foundation in Antarctica.
Dr. Aumiller was named the prestigious Premio Psyche Award winner in 2004 in the field of Italian psychology. He has co-written the base articles establishing the proficiencies in police psychology, has gotten police psychology recognized by the American Psychological Association as a specialty, has set up the first education programs in the profession, and is one of the founders of the International Summit in police psychology. Outside the field of psychology, Dr. Aumiller has acted as a consultant on three police movies, and even played a leading role of a serial killer in a movie by Columbia Pictures, for which he won a best supporting actor award in a national film festival. Prior to his police psychology career, Dr. Aumiller performed as a stage actor in professional stage and theatrical touring companies, and performed in the NY City, Washington and Chicago opera companies. His performance experience comes through in his presentations to make them both lively and interesting.
Dr. Aumiller was born and raised in Maryland, went to college at the University of Notre Dame, and went to graduate school at Hofstra University. He co-owns a clinic that serves law enforcement and federal agents in the New York area. He supervises 9 therapists and over 300 sessions a week. He is working on a novel series with a police psychologist as the main protagonist using a variety of police psychology techniques intends to reach out to readers to give them the real crime/thriller feel in a work of fiction. He has also written a children’s book called My Dad’s Hero...My Dad’s a Cop.
