Professor at MIT Connection Science and Universidad Carlos III (UC3M). Previously, he was a researcher at Oxford University. He holds a PhD in Physics and is an affiliated professor at the Joint Institute UC3M-Santander in Big Data at UC3M and the Joint Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

He has published extensively throughout his career (more than 80 papers) and has led numerous projects funded by government agencies and private companies. In addition, he has judged many Data Science and Big Data challenges, and is an editor of several journals and has advised many PhD students. His work is at the intersection of big data and computational social science, with a focus on human dynamics, collective intelligence, social networks and urban mobility in problems such as viral marketing, natural disaster management or economic segregation in cities.

He has received numerous awards for his research, including the IBM Shared University Award in 2007 for his research on viral marketing modelling in social networks and the Excellence in Research Awards in 2013 and 2015 from UC3M. Moro's work has appeared in journals such as Nature, PNAS and Science Advances, and he regularly writes for several well-known media outlets.