Carlos A. Salgueiro is a Professor at the Chemistry Department of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon (FCT-UNL), Portugal. He holds a PhD degree in Biochemistry at FCT-UNL (1998). From 1998 to 2016 he was Assistant Professor. He obtained his Habilitation Structural Biochemistry (2016), became Associated Professor in 2018 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2024.

Prof. Salgueiro heads the research lab "Biochemistry and Bioenergetics of Heme Proteins" at the Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit (UCIBIO). His research group focuses on the characterization of respiratory chains of exoelectrogenic bacteria, which couple their oxidative metabolism to the reduction of extracellular electron acceptors, such as toxic/radioactive metals or electrode surfaces. Extracellular electron transfer (EET) based biotechnological applications are currently being implemented, for example, for the bioremediation of toxic/radioactive compounds and for bioenergy production in microbial fuel cells.

Prof. Salgueiro's research group aims to optimize the EET processes in exoelectrogens for the improvement of the existent biotechnological applications. 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.