Mihaela Tabak, PhD, is a senior lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages at the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences. She graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 2003, and in 2021, after completing her postgraduate studies in applied linguistics, she earned a PhD in the field of humanities, specifically in philology.

Her research interests include language learning strategies, focusing on vocabulary learning strategies, individual factors in mastering foreign languages, and self-regulated language learning. She has published several scientific papers and presented at conferences abroad and in Croatia.