Leonor Morgado aims to understand and optimize the extracellular electron transfer in Geobacter sulfurreducens bacterium and thus contribute to a more efficient implementation of technologies which make it possible to generate clean energy and at the same time remove toxic compounds from the environment.

The researcher pursues her project in REQUIMTE/CQFB, Chemistry Department, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa.