Research

My research focuses on the biogeochemical processes that control the mobility and fate of metals in sediments and water, with interest in developing technologies for environmental sensing, remediation, and metal recovery.

To this end I integrate geochemical and ab-initio models to describe the relevant processes occurring at the solid-liquid interphase, and advanced spectroscopic techniques to characterize the speciation and reactivity of metals in complex matrices.

Research projects

• Speciation and distribution of metals in copper tailings deposits

• Displacement modeling of copper tailings deposits by computational fluid dyanmics

• First principles modeling for boron removal during reverse osmosis