Torsi is professor of chemistry at the University of Bari and adjunct professor at Abo Academy University. She received her laurea degree in Physics and the PhD in Chemical Sciences from UNIBA and was post-doctoral fellow at Bell Labs in USA. She is the past-president of the European Material Research Society, being the first women to hold this role. She is also the only women awarded with the H.E. Merck prize and the recipient of the Global-Women Inventors and Innovators Network platinum prize. Recently, she was also elected Fellow of the Material Research Society and awarded with the Distinguished Women Award by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Gathered research funding for over 26 M€, comprises several European contracts as well as national and regional projects. Torsi is committed to the role-modeling for younger women scientists. She has been giving a number of talks, including a TEDx.