Gilmar Salgado pursued his undergraduate studies at The Univ. of Algarve in partenariat with ITQB - Oeiras, where he was awarded a junior research fellowship from FCT to study colloidal chemistry and photochemistry in Eurico de Melo’s laboratory. In 2000 he joined the Biophysical Chemistry graduate program at the Univ. of Arizona to studied Solid State NMR and Plasmon-Waveguide-Resonance as biophysical methods to probe the activation of GPCRs in the group of Michael F. Brown. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in December 2004. In 2005 he joined the group of Serge Bouaziz in Paris 5 to study the traffic mechanism of HIV genome into the cell nucleus and the sorting mechanism using NMR methods. In 2008 he joined the group of Geoffrey Bodenhausen as a post doc fellow at Ecole Normale Supérieure-Université Pierre et Marie Curie, working with Daniel Abergel in the area of internal dynamics of proteins and with Olivier Lequin developing the emergent field of in-cell NMR.

He joined the group in September 2010