Sergio Torres-Giner received in 2003 a Dipl-Ing in Chemical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Spain. In 2004, he achieved a MSc in Process Systems Technology at Cranfield University, England, followed by an MBA in Industrial Management in 2005 at Catholic University of Valencia ‘San Vincente Mártir’, Spain. He was able to complete his PhD in 2010 in Food Science at the University of Valencia, Spain.

He gathers more than 14 years of experience in both public research agencies and industrial R&D organizations. He was a Predoctoral Research Assistant at the Joint Research Unit of Agropolymer Engineering and Emerging Technologies (UMR-IATE) of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) (2006) under the Leonardo da Vinci programme and later he carried out his PhD at the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (IATA-CSIC) (2006-11) with an I3P predoctoral fellowship. During his postdoctoral career he was a recipient of a Torres Quevedo contract and he worked as a Product Development Scientist for Ferro Corporation – Specialty Plastics Division (2011-14), as a Packaging Application Specialist for A. Schulman, Inc. – Masterbatch Division (2014-16), and as a R&D Project Manager for UBE Industries, Ltd. – Engineering Plastics (2016-17). In the teaching field, he was a part-time Associate Professor at the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) (2016-17) in the department of Chemical Engineering and since 2017 he teaches with a "Venia Docendi" at UPV in the area of Materials Science and Food Packaging.

In early 2017, he returned to IATA–CSIC to the group of Novel Materials and Nanotechnology for Food Applications, where since 2018 he has been the recipient of a Juan de la Cierva – Incorporación Postdoctoral contract. He has performed scientific missions at the University of Minho – School of Engineering as a Visiting Researcher (summer of 2017) through a Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) of a European COST Action, at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) as a Scientific Associate (summer of 2018) under a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action, and at the Institute for Polymer Materials (POLYMAT) of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) as an Invited Researcher (summer of 2019). In 2018, he co-founded the spin-off Ocenic Resins S.L. from the Joint Unit IATA-CSIC/Universitat Jaume I (UJI) in “Polymers Technology”, which is dedicated to the development and manufacturing of property balanced compounded bioresins for food packaging applications and food-contact disposable articles. He is also a Professional Member of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) since 2012, being actively involved in several conferences and events related to bioplastics. Currently, he is leading research activities to develop novel processes and materials that aim to enhance packaged food quality, safety, and even health attributes according to the Circular Economy and Bioeconomy strategies. He also currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Applied Sciences in Section "Food Science and Technology" and Polymers in Section "Bio-Based and Biodegradable Polymers" whereas he guests several special issues in the fields of biopolymers and sustainable food packaging.