Gonçalo D. Santos is an anthropologist working on questions of social transformation in contemporary China, proposing an approach to the radical transformations of the last five decades that gives voice to the perspectives of ordinary people and communities situated in the margins. His research combines ethnographic and historical approaches and draws on two decades of fieldwork experience in both rural and urban areas. He is currently a Professor of Social-Cultural Anthropology and is the Coordinator of the PhD Program in Anthropology at the University of Coimbra. He is also a Senior Researcher at CIAS—Research Centre for Anthropology and Health, University of Coimbra, where he coordinates the Research Cluster "Technoscience, Society, and the Environment" and the Laboratory of Critical Studies of the Anthropocene. He held previous professorial and research positions at the London School of Economics, the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, and the University of Hong Kong. He is the author / editor of four books, including Chinese Village Life Today (University of Washington Press, 2021) and Transforming Patriarchy (UWP, 2017, with S. Harrell). His research has been published in leading journals and academic presses in the fields of Social-Cultural Anthropology, China Studies / Asian Studies, and Social Studies of Science and Technology. His work has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the British Academy, the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, and the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. He was awarded a Visiting Scholar Fellowship from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and he is a member of the “Culture and Society” Research Group of the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues at Georgetown University. His current research focuses on two major thematic lines of inquiry: (1) contemporary challenges of care, health and well-being, and (2) debates on alternative models of development, multi-species entanglements and issues of environmental justice. He is also very interested in debates on the value of local / traditional knowledge, cultural heritage, and the struggles of indigenous and rural communities. He is in the editorial board of major academic journals and is a member of the Editorial Collective of HAU Books. He is also the founder and the director of the Sci-Tech Asia International Research Network, a leading transnational research network in the field of social studies of science and technology. He writes occasionally in the press and is an active podcaster . He is very interested in the digital humanities and is involved in a wide range of artistic and community engagement activities.