Jorge Morato-Lara
| Given name | Jorge |
|---|---|
| Family name | Morato-Lara |
| Citation name | Morato-Lara, J. |
| Knowledge Domains of expertise | 01 02 03 04 06 08 67 81 Clear Language Computational Semantics Interoperability |
| Country of residence | es |
Dr. Morato has a degree in Science from Alcala University and a PhD in Documentation from Carlos III University (UC3M). He has a certificate of pedagogical aptitude from the Universidad Complutense. In 1999, he presented his doctoral thesis on quality indicators of medical texts in natural language. In 1990, he started working in LIS at the National Research Center (CSIC). Since 1994, he has been a researcher at the UC3M. From 1997 to 1999, he was awarded several research scholarships in the computer science department of Universidad Carlos III, which became a teaching contract in 2000. Ever sincee, he has taught in the Computer Science and the Information Science departments, focusing on issues related to accessibility, knowledge organisation and information retrieval, in web environments.
As of 2025: He has received, since 2009, 30 teaching awards and the last six research or teaching congratulations awarded biannually by the UC3M. He has directed: five PhD theses, one awarded with distinctions and another with a European mention, 14 master thesis, and 28 bachelor theses. He has participated in 6 national projects, one as coordinator, two European projects and 4 international projects. He has also collaborated in 19 projects with companies (art. 83), being responsible for 11 of them, most of them competitive. By those means, he has created the infrastructure for training more than 7,000 health professionals in medical vocabularies (ICD-10), the largest national effort in controlled vocabularies in this area to date.
He has published more than one hundred contributions. Among them, 30 JCR and 27 Scopus articles, and publications in first-level books.