He is full professor of the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED).

[4] A noted europeanist,[5] he also was the director of the Madrid office of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) think tank.

[1] In June 2016, he became the director of opinion of El País.

[6] After Soledad Gallego-Díaz became the new editor-in-chief of El País in June 2018, Torreblanca left the newspaper and was replaced as op-ed editor by Máriam Martínez-Bascuñán.

Torreblanca subsequently joined El Mundo as opinion writer in September 2018.