Ester Torres-Simón holds a PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies. She is currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Translation and East Asian Studies (area of Korean language and translation) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she also coordinates the Exchange Program with Korea. She is also a member of several international networks: she is secretary of the Spanish Association for East Asian Studies (AEEAO) and a member of the Committee for terminology and Wikipedia of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST).  

She has worked at several universities in South Korea, and in educational centres across the Spanish State, such as the UOC, the URV and the European University of the Atlantic. Her research focuses on literary connections between Korea and the United States after the Korean War, as well as indirect translation and processes of cultural mediation.