Ana Pinheiro

Project coordinator and researcher with 15+ years coordinating complex, multi-stakeholder projects, where I have naturally evolved into the 'operational backbone' for academic and scientific teams. I specialize in moving stalled work forward, standardizing documentation, and unblocking collaborators—functions I have consistently delivered by intuition and necessity rather than title. My experience includes bringing six stalled projects through to publication, managing a €250k research grant over four years, and overseeing compliance, audits and reporting across high-stakes infrastructure projects. I am now looking to bring that experience into an operations role, bringing a ‘finisher’ mindset to a more formal, structured environment.

Key Achievements

· Project follow-through: Picked up six stalled, multidisciplinary projects with incomplete data and disengaged contributors, and coordinated the international collaborators needed to bring all six through to publication.

· Grant leadership: Wrote and was awarded a competitively funded research grant as Principal Investigator; responsible for its scope, budget and reporting through to completion.

· Cross-team output: Contributed to 39 peer-reviewed publications, most involving multiple institutions and external collaborators.

· Regulatory & compliance coordination: Managed environmental compliance and audit-ready documentation across five infrastructure projects, translating technical legislation into requirements non-specialist teams could act on. Maintained zero fines across audits.