João Pedro Morais began his graduate studies in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Aveiro (Portugal). During his third year, he was invited to pursue his studies at the Institute of Mathematics and Physics of Bauhaus University of Weimar (Germany) through the ERASMUS Program, where he obtained his PhD in Mathematics with magna cum laude distinction. After completing his PhD, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the same university for seven months.

In 2010, he joined the Institute for Applied Analysis at the University of Freiberg (Germany) as a postdoctoral researcher, a position he held until 2013. In the same year, he returned to the Department of Mathematics at the University of Aveiro, where he worked until 2014. Since January 2015, he has been a full-time professor at ITAM. Throughout his career, he has lectured at more than 40 universities around the world. Thanks to his outstanding research in Applied Computational Mathematics, he was awarded the Highest Distinction Award by the European Society for Computational Methods in Science, Engineering, and Technology in 2013.

In 2021, he received his Habilitation in Mathematics from Freiberg University. He is co-author of a textbook for graduate students, published by Springer, and has published more than 60 scientific papers, including six book chapters and 28 papers in international conferences. He has supervised several PhD and undergraduate theses, contributing to the development of new generations of mathematicians. He has been a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers since 2016.

His research areas include complex and hypercomplex analysis, approximation theory, differential equations, boundary-value problems, orthogonal polynomials, conformal and quasi-conformal mappings, as well as signal and image processing.