Since December 2025 he is Director of the European Institute of International Studies in Stockholm (Sweden). Between January 2020 and July 2025, he served as Director of the Institute of European Studies and Human Rights, the Office of International Projects, and International Relations at the Pontifical University of Salamanca (Spain). During this time, he created the first master’s program in Ethical Governance of Artificial Intelligence and was a member of the university’s Doctoral School.
Previously, he served as Lecturer-Associate Researcher at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) (2018-2020), Associate Lecturer and Researcher at Stockholm University’s Faculty of Humanities (2010-2018), and Director of the European Institute of International Studies in Sweden (2008-2021), where he also directed the Global Ibero-America Chair, EU-LAC Relations Chair, International Relations and Diplomacy Chair, as well as serving as Executive Secretary of the IBERO-EURO-AMERICA Universities Consortium.
Dr. Torres Jarrín has been a visiting professor at universities including Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), University Institute of Lisbon (Portugal), University of Economics and Anglo American University (Czech Republic), as well as various diplomatic academies in Europe, Asia and the Americas.
He has participated in six international research projects. As Principal Investigator, he led the EU Defenders project at the Pontifical University of Salamanca (2021–2023). As a researcher, he has contributed to four Jean Monnet Networks: Relations between the EU and Latin America (led by University of Concepción, Chile, 2019–2021); Over the Atlantic (led by University of Bologna, Italy, 2020–2023); The Reconfiguration of the EU Presence in Latin America (led by FAU Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany, 2020–2023); and Bridge Watch (led by University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2023–2026). He also coordinatior in the project Towards the Modernization of the EU–Mexico Global Agreement, funded by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Germany, 2022–2023).
He has an extensive publication record, with research published in Sweden, Germany, the United States, Brazil, Spain, Belgium, Peru, Mexico, Chile, France, Switzerland, Italy, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and India.
He is a member of international scientific committees within the G20 and EU, and member in academic council as the European Union-Latin America and the Caribbean Academic Forum (Bucharest), the Center for Latin American Studies at Anglo American University (Czech Republic), the Center for International Studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (Argentina), and the Research Center for International Private Law at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil).
He completed all his studies at the University of Salamanca (Spain), earning a PhD in History, a Master’s in European Union Studies, and a degree in Business Studies.