Carles Padilla Carmona (Valencia, 1964) is a professor of Latin Philology. He graduated from the Universitat de València in 1987 and was tenure-track 2 professor of upper secondary school education while was studying his doctorate and thesis, under the supervision of Ismael Roca Melià. He got his doctorate in October 1994, graded excellent cum laude. In December of that same year he started in the Department of Classical Philology at the University as a trainee lecturer. As assistant professor, tenured school professor and tenured university professor, successively, he has focused his teaching and research on the areas of Latin and Indo-European language and has published numerous works. Padilla is currently Dean of the Faculty of Language Studies, Translation and Communication at the Universitat de València.