Catarina Delaunay holds a PhD in Sociology from the School of Social and Human Sciences at NOVA University Lisbon. She is an Integrated Researcher at CICS.NOVA – Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, NOVA University Lisbon, where she served as deputy director and coordinated the Population, Health and Well-being research group. She is an invited Assistant Professor at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. She serves on the board of the Sociology of Health and Medicine research network of the European Sociological Association, where she was newsletter editor and later co-organized the 2025 mid-term conference in Évora, also responsible for articulation with other RNs and associations. She is one of three coordinators of the Sociology of Health section of the Portuguese Sociological Association. Previously, she was Principal Investigator of ETHICHO, an R&D project on lay and expert meaning-making about the embryo in vitro (PTDC/SOC-SOC/29764/2017). She coordinated the working group “Health Governance and Regulation” at NOVAsaúde Health Systems and Policies. Her master’s dissertation received the Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos Women’s Research Prize in 2001 and was published as a book. From 2010 to 2016 she was a postdoctoral fellow at CICS.NOVA (Portugal) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales – EHESS (France), with a project on controversies around gamete donation. She has organized several national and international scientific events, co-edited three books, and published over 55 book chapters and journal articles, namely in Scopus and WoS-indexed journals and by major international publishers. She is an Associate Editor of Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (Springer) and Interface: Communication, Health, Education. She is a member of the Laboratory for Social Studies on Childbirth (CIES-Iscte) and of SEEN – Social SciencE Endometriosis Network. Her current research focuses on sociotechnical controversies around medically assisted reproduction, bridging Sociology of Health and Medicine with Science and Technology Studies.