Adrià Rivera Escartin is Assistant Professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and Affiliated Faculty member at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). He holds a PhD in International Relations from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain, and a MA in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action from Sciences Po Paris, France.

His first research area is comparative politics in the Maghreb, focusing on topics such as (de-)democratization processes and the political effects of energy transitions. Additionally, Adrià's second line of research examines the societal and political reverberations of EU foreign policy in neighbouring countries.

He is a member of the Observatory of European Foreign Policy (Spain) and has participated in several competitive research projects and networks funded by the Spanish Ministry of Innovation and Research and the European Commission. His work has been published in journals such as Democratization, Political Geography, Third World Quarterly, and the Journal of European Public Policy.