Ana Inés Torres is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research lies in the general area of process systems engineering and focuses on sustainability. Her current activities are in three broad areas: (i) the decarbonization of the chemical industry, with an emphasis on electrification and utilization of biomass for fuels and chemicals, and (ii) the recovery and reuse of materials, with an emphasis on the development of theories for the analysis of circular economy initiatives and (iii) the design of environmentally-friendly processes for the recovery of rare earths.

Torres earned her BS in chemistry in 2003 and a diploma in chemical engineering in 2005, both from the Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay. After a number of years of industrial experience, she moved to the US to pursue a Ph.D. in chemical engineering at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. She completed her postdoctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Most recently, Torres served as faculty in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Universidad de la República, Montevideo, in Uruguay.

Torres received the NSF CAREER award in 2024, was selected as a consultant for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in 2024, and serves as an associate editor of Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy. She has been an invited speaker at the FOCAPD Conference 2024 and the FOCAPO / CPC Conference 2023, as well as at many other conferences and universities, and she was a keynote speaker at the Interamerican Congress of Chemical Engineering Incorporating the 68th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference in 2018.