Carlos A. Salgueiro is an Associate Professor with Habilitation at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (FCT-UNL) since 2018, where he heads the research lab "Biochemistry and Bioenergetics of Heme Proteins" at the Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit (UCIBIO). He graduated in Chemistry and Biotechnology (1989) and obtained his PhD degree in Biochemistry (1998) at FCT-UNL. From 1998 to 2016 he was Assistant Professor. He obtained his Habilitation in Biochemistry (Structural Biochemistry) in 2016 and in 2018 he became Associated Professor. Carlos Salgueiro coordinated the Master Program in Biotechnology at FCT-UNL from 2013 to 2018, and has been nominated again for its coordination in 2020. His research group focuses on the characterization of respiratory chains of exoelectrogenic bacteria. These bacteria couple their oxidative metabolism to the reduction of extracellular electron acceptors, such as toxic/radioactive metals or electrode surfaces. Extracellular electron transfer based biotechnological applications are currently being implemented, for example, for the bioremediation of toxic/radioactive compounds and for bioenergy production in microbial fuel cells. Carlos Salgueiro's research group aims to optimize the extracellular electron transfer processes in exoelectrogens for the improvement of the existent biotechnological applications. By employing Geobacter as model organism ¿ given its ubiquitous presence in the environment and the high current density output in microbial fuel devices -, the research group is developing new methodologies, using NMR, to assist the structural and functional characterization of electron transfer components, particularly multiheme cytochromes and bacterial conductive filaments This information is being explored for the rational engineering of electron transfer components of exoelectrogens and to optimize the Geobacter-based biotechnological (bioremediation, microbial electrosynthesis, bioenergy) and bioelectronics applications. Presently, he collaborates with 7 international and 6 national research teams. International collaborative network: P. Raj Pokkuluri (Auburn Univ., USA); Derek Lovley (Univ. Massachussets, USA); Douglas Laurents (CSIC Madrid, Spain); Daniel Murgida & Marcelo A. Marti (Univ. Buenos Aires, Argentina); Katharina Fromm & Bernd Giese (Univ. of Fribourg, Switzerland); Thomas Boesen (Aahrus Univ., Denmark) and Nikhil Malvankar (Yale Univ., USA); National collaborative network: Elvira Fortunato (CENIMAT/FCT-UNL); Ricardo Louro & Catarina Paquete (ITQB/NOVA); Teresa Catarino & David Turner (ITQB/NOVA); Isabel Couto (IHMT/NOVA); Smilja Todorovic (ITQB/NOVA); Cristina Cordas (LAQV/FCT/UNL). He is/was principal investigator of 10 funded research projects and coordinator at participant institutions in other 6. To date, he has supervised 86 research students (4 Post-Doc; 8 PhD; 13 Master; 27 final BSc projects; 34 grantees under the scope of funded research projects). He also serves as reviewer in international scientific journals (22) and as project reviewer for national funding agencies (4). He co-authored 97 Papers in international peer reviewed journals [ISI web of Knowledge papers - 70 as corresponding author - 1 book, 4 book chapters]; 49 oral presentations (24 as presenting author); 4 conference papers; 16 conference abstracts; 128 conference posters and 20 protein structures / NMR assignments deposited in Protein Data Bank archive - PDB (8) / Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank - BMRB (12) .