Brígida Riso got her PhD in Sociology at Iscte-IUL. In her PhD research "Stored Health - The biobank in Health reconfiguration in the contemporary society" she studied the Portuguese landscape of biobanks and the social dynamics of clinical and biomedical research. She is also interested in the social implications of the development of new biotechnologies applied to human health, such as genetics technologies, gene editing or health data usage, combining the perspectives of health sociology and social studies of science. She is a trainer in research integrity (Embassy of Good Science) and in open science (OpenAire). Currently, she is a researcher at Lisbon School of Medicine (University of Lisbon).