Mohammad Ali Kharmandar is a continental philosophy reader, a translation studies researcher, a professional, academic, and official (sworn) translator, as well as a computer programmer (graduate of software technology). He has conducted research on various notions such as the philosophy of science, argumentation, poetics, globalization, translation theory, and the philosophy of history and social movement. His original research lines include the politics/poetics of archaism in translation (2014), Ricoeur’s extended translation theory (2015), argumentation-based literary translation quality assessment (2016), and subcultural translation (2018).