Florina Erbeli received her Ph.D. in special education from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She completed her postdoctoral training at Florida Center for Reading Research and Department of Psychology at Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL.
Dr. Erbeli joined the faculty in the Department of Educational Psychology at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX as an assistant professor in 2018. Her work to date has centered on three broad strands relating to the science of reading, especially among populations with reading disabilities. These strands include: (1) reading development, (2) predictive factors of reading achievement, and (3) individual differences in reading ability and disability. Dr. Erbeli’s work has been published in several top-tier peer-reviewed journals. She received an early career award from her flagship professional society The Society for the Scientific Study of Reading for her contributions and dedication to the field.