Héctor Opazo Carvajal is the Director of Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship and Creativity at the Universidad Católica Silva Henriquez, Chile and the Founder and Principal Investigator of the ABC Lab. His work focuses on the intersections of community service-learning, community-based research, youth development, educational transformation, social justice, and social innovation. He has been involved in several multinational studies about service learning and is the principal investigator of the project "Collaboratories of purpose: Building capacities for the transformation of young lives" (2021-2025), funded by the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge, and Innovation (Chile). He is also leading the pioneering project to develop a second-chance school system in Chile with Fundación Súmate (Hogar de Cristo, Chile). He served as a UNESCO consultant for socio-emotional educational transformation and has authored several high-impact publications in leading magazines and publishers in the educational field globally. In addition, he is co-editor of Open Education Studies (De Gruyter, Germany). Currently, Héctor is research professor at Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez (Chile). He received his PhD in Education and MA in Education from the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain). He also received the Extraordinary Doctoral Award in 2017 and graduated (B. Ed.) from the University of Playa Ancha (Chile).