Gonçalo D. Santos is an Assistant Professor of Socio-Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Life Sciences and a Researcher and Group Coordinator in the Research Center for Anthropology and Health (CIAS) at the University of Coimbra. Prior to joining the University of Coimbra in 2020, he held positions at the London School of Economics, the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, and the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Chinese Village Life Today (University of Washington Press, 2021) and the co-editor of Transforming Patriarchy (University of Washington Press, 2017). His research explores new approaches to questions of modernity, subjectivity, and social, technological, and ecological transformation, combining the fields of social-cultural anthropology, Asian studies, and science, technology, and society studies. He is the coordinator of the Research Group on "Technoscience, Society, and Environment," and is the founder and the director of the transnational research network Sci-Tech Asia.