Biography

Susana de Noronha is 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. ////////// As an Anthropologist and Sociologist (PhD), she works at the intersection of Anthropology of Art and Material Culture and Science and Technology Studies (STS). With a qualitative and interdisciplinary focus, she is currently interested in science+art+technology+community collaborations, 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, advancing new understandings of art, material culture/technology, and new science+art assemblages. 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. ////////// 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.