Author of the award-winning book - A Tinta, a Mariposa e a Metástase: a arte como experiência, conhecimento e acção sobre o cancro de mama - published by Edições Afrontamento.

Winner of the CES Award for Young Social Scientists from Portuguese-speaking Countries 2007 ex aequo. International and intercontinental award for the best research project/monograph written by young researchers from any of the nine countries [of the four Continents - Europe, Africa, America and Asia] having Portuguese as their official language.

Winner of the Bernardino Machado Award 2003 for the best graduate student in Anthropology - University of Coimbra, Portugal.

PhD Grant-holding Researcher - Foundation for Science and Technology [Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia - Portugal].

Social Anthropologist - [BA in Anthropology; MA in Sociology; PhD Candidate in Sociology of Culture - University of Coimbra, Portugal]

Research interests: social studies of art and material culture, medical anthropology.

Lyricist of the portuguese projects/bands - “At Freddy’s House” and “Pyroscaphe”, with work published in two albums, one EP and three compilations.

© Susana Noronha, "unfinished self-portrait", pencil on paper; website logo: "self-portrait as a tree", digital drawing.