Meral Koldas is a tenure-track Assistant Professor and a doctoral-level behavior analyst, researcher, and educator with international experience in autism intervention and online training modalities. She earned her Ph.D. in Applied Behavior Analysis from Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland, following an M.Sc. in Applied Behavior Analysis from Bangor University in the UK and a B.A. in Special Education from Anadolu University in Türkiye. Before joining the University of Missouri–St. Louis, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Munroe-Meyer Institute.
Dr. Koldas is an active member of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, serving on the Practice Board and as the Dissemination Coordinator for the Verbal Behavior Special Interest Group. She also contributes to the field as a member of the editorial boards of Behavior Analysis in Practice and The Analysis of Verbal Behavior.
