After one year of working with the National Institute for Sports Research in Bucharest, he moved to the UK and completed a postgraduate program in Applied Psychology at Liverpool Hope University. He then worked as a Research Assistant in the BEIP until 2007, when he returned to the UK to pursue a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Manchester. Florin rejoined the BEIP lab team in 2011 as a Research Fellow and has since been involved with collecting and analyzing the data at ages 12 and 16 years. His general research interest is in early influences on infant and child development, with emphases on behavioral and cognitive development, physiology, and mental health.