Celeste Cortés

Built product-level carbon footprints for FMCG and personal care brands and streamlined data pipelines to deliver actionable sustainability insights via dashboards.

Coordinated cross-functional workflows and maintained internal reporting tools to improve visibility and traceability of operational processes, and managed financial reconciliations.

Conducted quantitative ecological research and processed biodiversity monitoring datasets to inform conservation strategies and carbon credit project development.

Managed and structured web-based product data for high-precision GNSS systems, coordinated product information releases, and improved digital product catalog usability.

Led qualitative data analysis of podcast interviews with NVivo, produced visual content for the Encyclopedia of Robotics, and contributed to software testing for VR rehabilitation tools.

Developed sustainability-focused communication materials and visual campaigns to showcase impact and strengthen producer and donor engagement for a specialty coffee importer/exporter.

Partnered with NGOs to align conservation activities with biodiversity targets, led database modelling for flora and fauna records, and supported community-based conservation projects.

Activities and societies: Semester abroad at Universitat de Barcelona; traineeship at SPECS Lab; StAR award recipient (Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs).

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Biology with focus on Genomics & Ecology, including a semester abroad at Universitat de Barcelona and a traineeship at SPECS Lab.

Attended Bachelor in Medicine, Cognition Brain and Technology (BCBT) program; degree not completed.

Semester abroad with courses in Neurogenomics and Genetic Diseases as part of the Bachelor of Science exchange.

Activities and societies: Qualitative data analysis using NVivo; software testing (Node.js, Python); design of visual materials.

Traineeship at SPECS lab involving qualitative data analysis, diagram and visual content design, and software testing for VR-based rehabilitation tools and brain simulation models.

Completed a Life Cycle Assessment course focused on environmental impact assessment methodologies.

Completed a short course on Circular Economy: An Interdisciplinary Approach focusing on sustainability and systems thinking.

Completed a 60-hour course in Data Visualization and Storytelling as part of data and communication skill development.

Completed an Introduction to SQL course to support data handling and analysis tasks.