Working with the Team
Project Summary: This page highlights projects in which I collaborated as a co-author or team member, contributing to interdisciplinary initiatives involving materials characterization, geopolymers, and biological remediation strategies.
Key Contributions:
- Developed the experimental design for the synthesis and testing of geopolymeric materials for waste immobilization, including the proposal of empirical mathematical models
- Participated in the determination of fungi found in 30-year closed containers from the Goiania radiological accident
- Contributed to the discussion on uranium adsorption via biochars and activated biochars in radioactive treatment studies
- Assisted in the discussion of the effects of using thermal plasma for solid radioactive waste degradation
Techniques Involved: FTIR, SEM/EDS, gamma spectroscopy, geopolymer synthesis, ICP OES
Relevant Publications:
- Toward Sustainable Radioactive Waste Management: Geopolymerization of Sewage Sludge Ash as a Viable Solution – ACS Omega (2025)
- Prospects for fungal bioremediation of unburied waste packages from the Goiânia radiological accident – Environmental Science and Pollution Research (2023)
- Uranium removal from aqueous solution using macauba endocarp-derived biochar: Effect of physical activation (2021)
- Experimental study on treatment of simulated radioactive waste by thermal plasma: Temporal evaluation of stable Co and Cs (2021)
Figure 1: Microscopic view of fungal spores found in unburied waste packages
Figure 2: SEM images from a physically activated biochar
Figure 3: Synthesized geopolymers with activated carbons and ion exchange resins
Image Credits:
- Figure 1: Adapted from Prospects for fungal bioremediation of unburied waste packages from the Goiânia radiological accident, Environmental Science and Pollution Research (2023).
- Figure 2: Adapted from Uranium removal from aqueous solution using macauba endocarp-derived biochar: Effect of physical activation, Environmental Pollution (2021).
- Figure 3: Adapted from Toward Sustainable Radioactive Waste Management: Geopolymerization of Sewage Sludge Ash as a Viable Solution, ACS Omega (2025).