Biography

Susana de Noronha is Permanent Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) U.Coimbra and Invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Institute of Social Sciences, U.Minho (Portugal). She is a founding member of AIDA - Social Sciences Research Network on Artificial Intelligence, Data, and Algorithms. Additionally, she holds the position of Ambassador for Portugal for The Association for the Study of Death and Society, based in the UK. Member of the Editorial Board of the CES Collection Book Series, with the label IUC, University of Coimbra Press. She served as Co-coordinator of the Science, Economy, and Society Research Group (NECES-CES) and as a Member of the Standing Committee of the CES Scientific Board (2020 to 01/2022). ////////// As an Anthropologist and Ph.D. in Sociology (Summa Cum Laude), she works at the intersection of Cultural Studies (Anthropology/Sociology of Art, Material and Visual Culture Studies) Art, Science and Technology Studies (ASTS) and Medical Anthropology. With a qualitative and interdisciplinary focus, she is currently interested in science+art+technology+community articulations, understanding how artificial intelligence can reshape the stories we tell and the worlds we make. ////////// She is the sole author of three groundbreaking research monographs - as well as international book chapters and articles - that explore the depiction of illness experiences, as well as representations of biomedical technologies and materialities in the visual arts. She has also authored and published 52 scientific illustrations, introducing a new methodology - creative ethnographic drawing, reinventing this practice with the use of metaphor and imagination, enlarging what social science can say, show, and do. ////////// She has been recognised with several awards and distinctions, including Women in Science 2023, by Ciência Viva - National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture, Portugal; 30 Years, 30 Anthropologists (2023) by the Department of Life Sciences (DCV), U.Coimbra; the 2007 CES Award for Young Portuguese-speaking Social Scientists by CES, U.Coimbra; and the 2003 Bernardino Machado Award for Anthropology (Best Student) by the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, U.Coimbra.