In 1883 he was in Pisa under Enrico Betti, Riccardo de Paolis and Ulisse Dini: a year later, he was in Leipzig under Felix Klein, Adolph Mayer and Carl Neumann.

[15] In 1886, after passing the required competitive examination by a judging commission,[16] he became professor of rational mechanics at the University of Genova: he lived there for 15 years, serving also as dean and as rector.

In his commemorative papers, Carlo Somigliana describes extensively Morera's personality:[22] according to him, he was a devoted friend and precious colleague,[23] capable of serenely judging men and facts.

[25] His intelligence is described as sharp and penetrating,[26] his mind as uncommonly lucid,[27] himself as possessing analytic and critical abilities and being versatile, capable to grasp and appreciate every kind of manifestation of the human intellect.

[31] Acknowledged as honest, loyal and conscientious,[32] good-tempered and with a good intellect,[33] his simple manners earned him affection even when performing the duties of dean and rector at the University of Genoa.

[34] Also Maggi (1910, p. 319) describes him as a man of high moral value, and ascribes to such qualities the reason of his success in social relations and in performing his duties as a civil servant.

Talchè la sua produzione scientifica può dirsi critica nel senso più largo e fecondo, cioè non-dedicata allo studio di minuziosi particolari, ma alla penetrazione e soluzione delle quistioni più difficili e complicate.

Questa tendenza del suo ingegno si rivelò anche in un carattere esteriore di molte sue pubblicazioni, che egli presentò in forma di lavori brevi e concettosi; dei quali poi particolarmente si compiaceva, ed in conformità del suo carattere sincero, la sua compiacenza non-si tratteneva dal manifestare apertamente.

320–324) classifies Morera's work by assigning each publication to particular research field: this classification is basically adopted in the following subsections.

Maggi (1910, p. 322) classifies four of his works within the realm of elasticity theory: his contribution are well described by Truesdell & Toupin (1960) and by Ericksen (1960) in their known monographs.

However, his teaching is also testified by the lithographed lecture notes (Morera 1903–1904): according to the OPAC Archived 2 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine, this book had two editions, the first one being in 1901–1902.

The references listed in this section are mainly commemorations or surveys giving information on the life or Morera but also describing his scientific researches in some detail.