Education
Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Geology (04/2021 - Current) - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – USA
D.Sc. in Chemical Engineering (03/2016 - 03/2021) - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Visiting Student Researcher in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering (01/2019 - 03/2021) - Stanford University – Stanford, USA
M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering (03/2014 - 03/2016) - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering (03/2008 - 03/2013) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) – Florianópolis, Brazil
Awards and Honors
Outstanding Student Presentation Award - AGU Fall Meeting 2020.
Highlighted Publications
Esteves B.F., Li Q., Spielman-Sun E., Jew A.D., Bargar J.R., Druhan J.L. (2022). Geochemical modeling of celestite (SrSO4) precipitation and reactive transport in shales. Environmental Science & Technology, 56. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c07717
Esteves, B.F., Lage, P.L.C., Couto, P. and Kovscek, A.R. (2021). Pore-merging methodology for reactive transport and mineral dissolution in pore-network models. Advances in Water Resources, 155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2021.104014
Esteves, B.F., Lage, P.L.C., Couto, P. and Kovscek, A.R. (2020). Pore-network modeling of single-phase reactive transport and dissolution pattern evaluation. Advances in Water Resources, 145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103741