Verli was born in
Tirana on 19 December 1951. After finishing the high school "
Petro Nini Luarasi", he entered the Faculty of History-Philology of the
University of Tirana, History-Geography branch. During 1973–79 he worked as teacher in the town of
Laç. In 1979 he started in the
Institute of History in Tirana (), holding the position of the "scientific personnel" until 2013. In 1985 he revived the title "Kandidat i shkencave historike" (Candidate of history sciences), and "Doktor i Shkencave" (
Doctor of Sciences) in 1994, in 1997 "Associated Professor", and in 2001 "Professor". From 2005–2008 he served also as director of the Institute of History, and
editor-in-chief of the
Studime historike periodical. With the establishment of the
Centre of Albanological Studies (CAS) in 2008, Verli started as departmental director of the Institute of History, now part of CAS, and member of the CAS Academic Senate. Since 2009, he is an Associated Academic () of the Academy of Science of Albania. For over 30 years, he has been a lecturer of the University of Tirana (Faculty of History-Philology, and Faculty of Social Sciences), Doctorate Center of CAS, and
Aleksandër Xhuvani University in
Elbasan. As an author and co-author, he lists many publications, profiled in the history of the Albanians within former
Yugoslavia areas. ==Publications==