I am Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi, and I am an assistant professor at Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. 

I grew up in an Azerbaijani-speaking family in Tabriz, Iran, where I gradually became trilingual through Farsi-medium education and taking English courses outside the school program. My personal experience with multilingualism and love for different languages and cultures led me to a career in language studies. 

Since 2014 when I received my PhD in Applied Linguistics with a specialization in the sociology of language from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, my research has focused on multilingualism in policy and practice, investigating ideological dimensions of national language policies, policy formation and implementation, and visual language use in multilingual communities.