Carles Rius Santamaria has a doctorate in Philosophy, with a doctoral thesis on the relationship between the work of Antoni Gaudí and Germanic thought. He is a professor of Aesthetics, Ethics, and Political Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Barcelona.

Carles Rius Santamaria has been a professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and currently teaches at the University of Barcelona. He has published several books and articles in national and international magazines. Additionally, he has translated the works of Schelling. Carles has also undertaken teaching stays at the Universität Graz in 2022 and the Universität Leipzig in 2023.