Susana de Noronha
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© Noronha, S. (2008) Signature or self-portrait as a tree [Digital Drawing]
Drawing people, things, and events has been a part of my life since childhood, giving form and meaning to the world around me. During adolescence, as an art & design student, eyes, faces, hands, and trees became the central subjects of my sketchbooks. The detailed contour of a naked tree was a kind of self-portrait, a personal signature where friends and colleagues could recognise the trace of my right hand. Somehow, drawing defined who I was and what I could become! This is the reason why I chose it for my personal logo. A ramification is a process of becoming, of loss, stasis, and growth, a metamorphosis towards an uncertain future form. All self-portraits are thus unfinished!
Susana de Noronha is a 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. She is a founding member of AIDA - Social Sciences Research Network on Artificial Intelligence, Data, and Algorithms.
Academic background, areas of expertise, and current research interests: An Anthropologist and Sociologist (Ph.D. Summa Cum Laude), she works at the intersection of Art, Science and Technology Studies (ASTS), Anthropology/Sociology of Art, and Material and Visual Culture Studies, with prior expertise in Medical Anthropology. With a qualitative approach, her current research focuses on art+technology entanglements and the ways artificial intelligence reshapes the stories we tell and the worlds we make.
Scientific and creative outputs: She is the author of three disruptive research monographs that advance new understandings of art (Noronha, 2009), material culture/technology (Noronha, 2015), and new science+art assemblage (Noronha, 2019), thus proposing a new epistemology, ontology, and methodology in matters of health and illness. She has also authored and published 52 scientific illustrations in creative ethnographic drawing, reinventing the practice through metaphor and imagination. Additionally, she is a poet and lyricist, with 45 published poems featured in music albums, EPs, Compilations, and singles.
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).
She has received several awards and distinctions, including Women in Science 2023, by Ciência Viva - National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture; 30 Years, 30 Anthropologists (2023), by Department of Life Sciences (DCV) U.Coimbra; 2007 CES Award for Young Portuguese-speaking Social Scientists by CES, U.Coimbra; and 2003 Bernardino Machado Award for Anthropology (Best Student), by the Faculty of Science and Technology, U.Coimbra.
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