CV

Based in

Germany

Brazil

Languages

Portuguese: mother tongue

English and Spanish: fluent (C1-C2)

French: advanced level (B2-C1)

German: intermediary level (B2.1)

Pronoun (EN)

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Education

PhD in Global Sociology

2022–in progress | Freie Universität Berlin, DE

MA Globalisation & Development studies

2017–2018 | Maastricht University, NL

  • Thesis title: Gender and Climate Change in Pathways of Development: Encounters of National Policies with Gender Justice and Climate Justice

  • Degree attained with Cum Laude

  • Fully funded scholarship by the “Maastricht University Holland-High Potential scholarship”

  • Thesis nominated to the 2019 LOVA/Marjan Rens MA Thesis Award in the Netherlands

BA Political Science

2009–2014 | Universidade de Brasília, BR

  • Thesis title: Urban occupation movements and life in the city: the case of Bicicletaria in Brasília

  • BA scholarship student of the Brazilian Ministry of Education’s Tutored Education Program

Work Experience

Berlin University Alliance

2026 | Berlin, Germany

  • X Student Research Group co-leader: Paths to feel-think-act (sentir-pensar-actuar) socio-ecology in academic and activist spaces: entanglements between body, mind and action in socio-ecological research

Freie Universität Berlin

2022–2025 | Berlin, Germany

  • Research Associate within the Latin American Institute

Avina Foundation

2022 | Pará, Brazil

  • Research Consultant running a gender assessment and gender action plan for the application to the Green Climate Fund of a climate adaptation project in Marajó Island, Pará, Brazil. Activities included interviews and participatory research methods employed with traditional communities of the region. The project was approved in 2023

Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action – GAGGA

2021 | Remote

  • Research Consultant mapping Women and Gender Environmental Defender collectives, organizations and groups in the Global South, and their definitions of structural violence; what kinds of structural violence they are facing in their contexts; and their strategies to prevent and respond to it

GenderCC – Women for Climate Justice e.V.

2018–2021 | Berlin, Germany

  • Project Coordinator of international projects funded by Germany and implemented in different Global South areas

  • Advocacy and Outreach work in UNFCCC spaces to integrate intersectional and gender aspects into international climate agreements

United Nations Development Programme – UNDP Brazil

2015–2019 | Brasília, Brazil & Remote

  • Research Consultant elaborating quantitative reports and policy recommendations on Sustainable Development Goals indicators for seven cities in Northeastern Brazil (2018–2019, remote).

  • Project Assistant in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) team (2015–2018, Brasília).

©2026 Isadora Cardoso

©2026 Isadora Cardoso

©2026 Isadora Cardoso

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