Jose L. Torero

In 2018 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, being gazetted in the NSW Government Gazette (No 8, Thursday 31 January 2019) by the then Governor of New South Wales (now Governor General of Australia) His Excellency General, the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC(Rtd).

[9] While at the University of Queensland, Jose worked with NASA to conduct large-scale spacecraft fire safety tests,[10][11] as part of the SAFFIRE programme.

While at the University of Queensland, he led a team in the creation of a cladding materials library [13] that provides architects and building designers with reliable flammability data.

He was appointed as technical expert on the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) investigation into the Iguala Mass Kidnapping.

Torero's research[17][18] and subsequent report proved crucial in disproving the "Historic Truth" put forward by the Mexican Authorities.

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).