Carles Garrigues is a lecturer in the IT, Multimedia and Telecommunication Department of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), and he is a member of the K-riptography and Information Security for Open Networks (KISON) research group. He is a Computer Science Engineer by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and he conducted his doctoral studies in the SEcurity of Networks and Distributed Applications (SENDA) research group from the same university. He earned the PhD degree in July 2008.

At the UOC, he currently teaches in subjects related to Free Software, Information Systems Auditing and Information Security Management Systems. Since October 2009, he is the director of the Master's degree in Free Software. He is also an active researcher in computing and his interests, amongst others, include mobile agent security and cognitive radio networks.