I am Full Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Social Sciences, University of Minho (Braga, Portugal). I am curious about the interplay between science, technology and society. In particular, I am interested in cutting-edge technologies for human identification. I ask: How are imaginaries of good society, multiple knowledges, power processes, and material worlds articulated with and within such technologies? A sociologist by formation, I value interdisciplinary research. I am inspired at the intersection of a variety of fields, including social studies of science and technology, surveillance studies, critical algorithm studies, and pragmatic ethics I was the Principal Investigator of the Exchange Project (Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council – 2015/2021). I served as Dean of the Institute for Social Sciences at University of Minho (2019-2022), and as President of the Scientific Board of the Center for Social Studies at University of Coimbra (2016-2017). One of my main lines of work concerns technologies of governance through genetic and genomic technologies in forensics. I have written extensively about genetic state surveillance in the fabric of suspicion. In particular, I explored political processes of reframing complex collective problems as problems of security (e.g. criminality and terrorism). I am also interested in regimes of expertise and performativity of ethics by scientists and police agencies when they deal with controversies around privacy, human rights, and democracy in the governance of crime. Other topic that made me busy was scientific and technological advances to capture the very essence of the body (genes) and turn it into information. I inquired how genetic data was used for state surveillance and control of suspect populations. At this respect, one point of the research was the ways national states enact borders through the flows of DNA data and other biometric information shared through ICT infrastructures. I also pursue investigation about public engagement with genetics as concerned publics to what are the legitimate or shady uses of their samples and personal data. Besides studying the general citizens’ views, other research strand has focused on imaginaries of DNA technologies of prison inmates. My research in this topic allowed to understand situated positionings of criminalized social groups that are marginalized/silenced/ignored/invisibled by those in power.