Mohammadreza was a physics teacher with over 12 years of experience in the Iranian Ministry of Education. He has always had a great passion for learning state-of-the-art educational approaches, on top of a yearning to hone his professional skills. Therefore, he decided to continue his studies at the Ph.D. level in the field of Educational Technology at Tarbiat Modares University (TMU) as the only graduate school in Iran that admits students from all over the world for graduate and postgraduate studies.

Currently, he is a full-time researcher at Education and Learning Sciences group at Wageningen University and Research, working on a project that aims to foster higher education students' opportunity identification capability. In addition to conducting several conceptual studies concerning opportunity identification capability, he has designed and developed an online platform (https://ideation-hub.nl) to improve students' opportunity identification performances in entrepreneurship courses.