Mehrdad Vasheghani Farahani is a Ph.D. holder in English Translation Studies from Leipzig University, Germany. His areas of research interest include, but are not limited to such fields as Corpus Linguistics, Translation Studies and Corpus-based Translation Studies. He has extensively published in the domains of Translation Studies and Comparative Linguistics with a designated focus on (parallel) corpora. In addition, he is a freelance English-Persian and Persian-English translator.