He is a professor of Information Science in the Department of Computer Science at the Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain). He obtained his PhD in Library Science from the Carlos III University in 1999 on the subject of Knowledge Information Systems and its relationships with linguistics.  From 1991-1999, he had grants or contracts from the Spanish National Research Council. Currently he is elected member of the Faculty Governance in the University Senate, the Faculty Assembly and the Engineering School Academic Board.

His current research activity is centered on text mining, information extraction and pattern recognition, NLP, information retrieval, Web positioning, and Knowledge Organization Systems. He has published mainly on semi-automatic construction of thesauri and ontologies, topic maps, and conceptual and contextualized retrieval of semantic documents. His last project deals with Semantic Metadata Interoperability and Search (SEMSE) and Bibliotecología.

Professor Morato has taught courses on Information Retrieval, Search Engine Optimization, Software Engineering, and Knowledge Modelling Techniques and Management Systems.