Cheryl Marie Cordeiro

Research profile

Cheryl Marie Cordeiro is an applied researcher with a PhD in General Linguistics from the University of Gothenburg. Her work spans circular bioeconomy, sustainability transitions, food and water systems, soil health, international collaboration, and cross-cultural communication.

• Applied research across academic, research institute, and industry settings.
• Experience in Norway, Sweden, Singapore, and broader Nordic and Asian/Southeast Asian contexts.
• Advanced competence in qualitative, corpus-based, and discourse-analytical methodologies.

Project leadership and science-policy work

Her EU project work includes lead coordination, consortium development, proposal writing, Grant Agreement Preparation, project governance, stakeholder engagement, and science-policy framing.

• Main applicant and Lead Coordinator role for iCOSHELLs, FERTITEC, and CiNURGi.
• Lead Author, IPBES Nexus Assessment, 2022–2024.
• Experience across Horizon Europe, Mission Soil, Zero Pollution, and Interreg Baltic Sea Region frameworks.

2026 Apr – present

NIBIO Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research

Research Scientist, full-time, Division of Environment and Natural Resources

• Research Scientist at NIBIO, Ås, Norway.
• Position commenced 28 April 2026.

2025 Mar – 2026 Apr

RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Senior Scientist, full-time, Infrastructure and Civil Engineering

• Lead Coordinator for EU project proposals on circular economy and nutrient recycling.
• Horizon project text deconstruction and project framework conceptualization.
• Qualitative research methodology refinement, co-creation processes, citizen engagement, and SSH components in EU grant proposals.
• Grant proposal writing, consortium building, budgeting support, project timeline design, deliverables planning, and manuscript review.
• Post-grant support including Grant Agreement Preparation, DESCA Consortium Agreement, Data Management Plan, ethics assessment, IPR, and project budgeting.

2022 Aug – 2025 Feb

RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Project Manager, EU and International, full-time, Food and Agriculture / Bioeconomy and Health

• Lead Coordinator for EU project proposals.
• Successful EU project acquisitions: iCOSHELLs, FERTITEC, and CiNURGi.
• Responsibilities included consortium formation, work package structure, proposal writing, project management design, and EU project coordination.

2018 Sep – 2022 Sep

Nofima AS, Tromsø, Norway

Scientist, full-time, Marketing Research

• Principal Investigator on non-tariff trade barriers to market access in emerging markets.
• Work-package lead coordinator in EU project proposals, including European Green Deal and H2020 calls.
• Deliverable lead scientist on blockchain applications in food traceability in the EU-China-Safe project.
• Contributing research scientist in AquaVitae, an EU H2020 project on sustainable aquaculture value chains in the Atlantic.
• Coordinated and managed consortia for national and regional project proposals.
• Investigated consumer choice behaviour and product-service-to-market strategies for the Norwegian seafood sector.

2015 Sep – 2018 Jul

University of Gothenburg / ABB Corporate Research, Sweden

Principal Investigator / Project Manager, full-time, User Experience and Industrial Design

• Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Flexit programme Principal Investigator.
• Studied user-centric design of products and services across industrial contexts, including shipping, mining, robotics, smart grid, and healthcare.
• Designed research questions, analytical frameworks, corpora, interviews, text mining approaches, and keywords-in-context analysis.
• Coordinated university–industry field studies and reported to the RJ Flexit Board of Directors.

2013 Sep – 2015 Aug

University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Research Faculty, full-time, Centre for International Business Studies

• Formulated applied social-sciences perspectives for international business and economic-geography project proposals.
• Co-wrote research project proposals for national grants.
• Taught language-based qualitative research methodologies in the International Business and Trade MSc programme.
• Supervised five master’s thesis students, including two award-winning theses.

2011 Aug – 2013 Aug

GU Holding / University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Key Account Manager, full-time, School of Executive Education

• Liaised between corporate HR directors and university faculty in planning leadership training programmes.
• Coordinated global leadership programme deliveries in China, Finland, Iceland, India, Poland, Sweden, and Singapore.
• Reviewed, evaluated, tailored, and budgeted leadership programmes for corporate clients.

Doctoral and postgraduate education

• 2002–2009

  , PhD, General Linguistics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

• Doctoral thesis: Swedish Management in Singapore: A Discourse Analysis Study.

• 2015

  , 10th PhD and Post-Doc Seminar and Conference: Global and Cross-Cultural Organizational Research, Maastricht University, Netherlands.

• 2011

  , International Faculty Program, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain.

Master’s education

• 1998–2001

  , Master of Science, Information Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

• 1998–2000

  , Master of Arts, English Language, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

iCOSHELLs

Horizon Europe Mission Soil • 12 M€ • 2024–2028

Innovative Co-creation Soil Health Living Labs. Main applicant and Lead Coordinator role at RISE.

FERTITEC

Horizon Europe Zero Pollution • 2 M€ • 2025–2027

FERTIliser product recovery from secondary raw materials using best available TEChniques. Main applicant and Lead Coordinator role at RISE.

CiNURGi

Interreg Baltic Sea Region • 6.5 M€ • 2023–2026

Core project on circular nutrient management in the Baltic Sea Region. Main applicant and Lead Coordinator role at RISE.

RJ Flexit

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond • 2015–2018

Combined SLF + UTAUT model for technology acceptance: ABB User Experience study. Principal Investigator.

Swedish Managers in Singapore

Anna Ahrenberg Research Foundation • 2003–2007

PhD research project: Swedish Managers in Singapore: A Discourse Analysis Study.

15 September 2026

CAAS delegation visit, NIBIO Ås

Joint NIBIO presentation, scheduled

NIBIO and AEPI collaboration on sustainable manure management and nutrient recycling.

24 to 26 July 2026

AES Frontier International Conference, Changji, Xinjiang, China

Invited speaker, joint presentation, first author

Applying a Governance and Technology Coordination Lens from the Baltic Sea Region to Oasis Agriculture. Conference on Oasis Agricultural Resilience and Sustainable Development.

20 to 24 July 2026

FAO Training Programme on Resource Utilization of Agricultural Waste, China

Invited teacher, joint session

Resource Recovery from Agricultural Waste: Nordic evidence and a transferable framework for livestock manure, crop straw and mulch film.

October to November 2025

Agro-Environmental Protection Institute, Tianjin

Research seminar, APPC team and postgraduate researchers

The discourse of recycled nutrient fertilisers in circular economy principles.

20 to 23 October 2025

ISAEW 2025, Rongchang, Chongqing, China

Invited joint presentation

FERTITEC: Circular Solutions for Livestock Waste Valorization. International Symposium on Animal Environment and Welfare.

18 October 2025

Third Conference on Green, Low-Carbon, High-Quality Development of Animal Husbandry, Changsha, China

Invited presentation, co-authored, delivered by the project co-coordinator

European Innovations in Circular Fertiliser Systems and Livestock Manure Utilisation.

2024

Nordic Biogas Conference 2024, Aalborg, Denmark

Invited presentation on behalf of CiNURGi

Circular Solutions for Nutrient Recovery: Building Sustainable Synergies Across Sectors in the Baltic Sea Region.