Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Chemistry
University of Rochester
Hutchinson Hall B28
120 Trustee Road
Rochester, New York 14627
Email: bteixeir@chem.rochester.edu
Education
B.Sc. Technological Chemistry, Federal Center for Technological University of Minas Gerais, May 2017
M.Sc. Physics, University of Campinas, Gleb Watachin Institute of Physics, May 2020
Ph.D. Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, July 2024
Research Interests
I have been passionate about science since high school and I somewhat knew I wanted to be a scientist. During college, I became more and more interested in the secrets of the atomic structure, and the complicated equations that describe them. Still in my Bachelor, I had the opportunity to become an undergraduate researcher in a newly formed theoretical chemistry group. After two years of interesting research on nanoclusters and uranium molecules, I graduated and looked forward to more challenges. I joined the Master’s program in Physics, where I dived even more deeply into quantum mechanical equations using Quantum Monte Carlo Methods. Even though I returned to Chemistry for a PhD, I used to say I have never left physics, as I am always interested in getting the math behind any mathematical formalism, such as the relativistic corrections that played the main character of my Ph.D. dissertation.
Right now, I am starting a postdoctoral at Ruggiero’s lab, where I am looking forward to becoming more and more familiar with the mathematical and computational aspects of the fascinating
quantum mechanics.
Awards and Recognitions
- Graduate Teaching Assistant Achievement Award, Southern Methodist University, 2022
- Honorable Mention on Poster Presentation, Workshop on Molecular Physics and Spectroscopy, 2016.