Valentin Amrhein (born April 1, 1971 in Lübeck) is a German / Swiss professor of zoology at the University of Basel and science journalist.
Together with Sander Greenland and others, he is a critic of significance thresholds in science and he draws attention to misunderstandings of p-values.
He is author of a comment in the journal Nature on statistical significance that has the highest online attention score of all research outputs ever screened by Altmetric.