He obtained his doctoral degree from Central European University, with a dissertation on Plato's ontology of numbers, under the supervision of Gábor Betegh.

[5] Together with the philologist Antoaneta Sabău, Florin Călian founded a school for classical and oriental languages: Dan Slușanschi School for Classical and Oriental Languages, which is under the administrative stewardship of the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu.

[6] The main languages promoted by the school are: Spoken Latin, Ancient Greek, Sahidic Coptic, Biblical Hebrew and Old Slavonic.

[7][8] He published and lectured about platonic[9] and neoplatonic philosophy,[10] classical philology,[11] religious studies,[12][13] sacred spaces,[14] etc.

As journalist he published in Neue Zürcher Zeitung,[16] The Armenian Weekly,[17] Capital Cultural,[18] Contributors, etc.