Susana de Noronha is Auxiliary Researcher at CIES-Iscte – Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, University Institute of Lisbon (IUL). Team member of the project fAIces – Facial Recognition Technologies: Etho-Assemblages and Alternative Futures, coordinated by Helena Machado under a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant. 

Academic background, areas of expertise, and research interests: Anthropologist, PhD in Sociology (2012), she works at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies (STS), Anthropology of Art, and Material and Visual Culture Studies, with prior expertise in Medical Anthropology. As part of the project fAIces, her research explores how artists creatively engage with facial recognition technologies, emphasizing the epistemologies of resistance, critique, and the alternative imaginaries they articulate. 

Scientific and Creative Outputs: Author of three disruptive research monographs that advance new understandings of art (Noronha, 2009), material culture/technology (Noronha, 2015), and new science+art assemblages (Noronha, 2019), thus proposing a new epistemology, ontology, and methodology in matters of health and illness. She has also authored and published 53 scientific illustrations in creative ethnographic drawing, reinventing the practice through metaphor and imagination. Additionally, she is a poet/lyricist, with 45 published poems featured in music albums, EPs, Compilations, and singles. 

Awards and Distinctions: She has received 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 by the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, U.Coimbra. 

Previous activities: Noronha was a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), U.Coimbra (Postdoc 2013 to 2018; Researcher 2018 to 2024; Researcher with Membership Status 2019 to 2025) and an Invited Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Institute for Social Sciences (ICS), U.Minho (02/2022 to 02/2025). She also 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).