Augusto Salgado

e-mail | aaasalgado50@gmail.com

Captain Portuguese Navy (RET), Augusto Salgado, holds a PhD in History of the Discoveries from the School of Arts and Humanities (FLUL) and is currently Director of the Portuguese’s Maritime Museum. As an Associated Professor (guest) at the same school, he teaches the Doctorate in Maritime History, the master courses in Maritime History and in Military History and chairs of Underwater Archeology in the BA at the same Faculty. He was a professor of Naval History at the Instituto Universitário Militar and the Escola Naval between 2010 and 2021. He is a researcher at the Navy Research Centre (CINAV) and the FLUL History Center, where he coordinates that centre’s Military History Research Group.

He is an Emeritus member of the Academia de Marinha, an effective member of the Portuguese Commission on Military History, International Corresponding Member of the Institute of Geography and Military History of Brazil and member of the ICOMOS – International Committee on the Underwater Cultural Heritage.

Amateur diver and underwater photographer for over 40 years, since 1993, he regularly participates in underwater archaeology activities, having been, among others, coordinates the research projects Actions of the U-35 in the Algarve (2014-2019) and the project Research Project History and Archeology of Conflict (HistArC).