Torero is currently the Head of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at University College London. He took this appointment after serving for two years (2017-2019) at the University of Maryland as the John L. Bryan Chair of the Department of Fire Protection Engineering in the A. James Clark School of Engineering, and the Director of the Center for Disaster Resilience within the school's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Torero moved to the Clark School from the University of Queensland in Australia, where he chaired the School of Civil Engineering. Prior to that, he held the BRE Trust/Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Fire Safety Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and worked as an associate professor at UMD's Department of Fire Protection Engineering. Torero has also served as Chargé de Recherche at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. He obtained his PhD in 1992 from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied smoldering combustion and fire safety (Doctoral adviser Carlos Fernández-Pello). He graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
