He is currently a food quality researcher in INIA Chile. His lines of work have been focused on adding value to livestock products (meat), highlighting the first studies of nutritional characterization of meat produced under grazing conditions from Chile. Dr. Morales has also developed R+D+i projects related to the valorization of food through the origin and development of new meat products. He is currently the national coordinator of the livestock area of INIA CHILE, developing a proposal for the transition from conventional to sustainable livestock farming.