João M. Santos is a researcher at Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) specializing in data analysis and science studies, and the current Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education Quarterly. His current goal is finding out more about how scientists define their research agendas, so that we can better understand how the way to scientific discovery is paved. Beyond his work on research agendas, João also does scientific work in the fields of higher education, public policy, data analysis, and psychology.