Our team

Alessandra has a degree in Business Administration and an MBA in Project Management from Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV). She has 8 years of experience in R&D projects with public and private entities. Alessandra is currently Administrative Coordinator at ISDB FlowTech, working at the Financial management and budget execution control of all the Institute’s projects.

Eng. Dr. Christiano Garcia da Silva Santim received his B.Sc degree in Chemical Engineering from USP, his M.Sc in Mechanical Engineering from UNICAMP and Ph.D degree in Mechanical Engineering also from UNICAMP with expertise in the thermal & fluids and O&G areas working with flow assurance through two-phase flows (gas-liquid) and three phase flows (liquid-liquid-gas) modelling and analysis. Nowadays works on solving problems inherent to the O&G industry as R&D Engineer and technical consultant.

Eric M. G. Fontalvo is a Chemical Engineer from Universidad Industrial de Santander – UIS (2013), holding an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from PUC-Rio (2016). He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Chemical Engineering program at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ/COPPE) and a R&D Engineer at ISDB FlowTech. He has experience in experimental settings and computational fluid dynamics modeling of multiphase processes, especially in separated and dispersed flow regimes. He currently works at the institute on R&D projects mainly related to multiphase flow software development, and also collaborates on industrial projects.

João Carneiro holds an M.Sc from PUC-Rio and a Ph.D from the Technische Universität München (Germany) and a Post-Doctorate from PUC-Rio in physics-based computational simulations of fluid flows. He has 15 years of experience leading and executing R&D and consultancy projects in Oil & Gas production and related topics. João has been the Technical Lead and Manager of Flow Technology for SINTEF in Brazil and is currently the Chief Scientist and Managing Partner at ISDB FlowTech. João is also the founder and managing partner of the spin-off company HAI (www.hybridai.com.br)

João Pedro holds an M.Sc and is currently attending a D.Sc in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. The research themes refer to coupling approaches of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Population Balance Model in the multiphase modeling of dispersed systems separators. He has experience also in turbulence modeling applied to industrial process equipment. As a Research & Development engineer at ISDB, he works on projects involving CFD simulations, model development and Machine Learning applications in the Oil & Gas field.

João Victor holds a B.Eng and M.Sc in chemical engineering and safety engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Process from UFRJ. He has 15 years of experience in computational fluid dynamics, especially on multiphase flows, process safety, accident analysis, sensor optimization, and equipment optimization. João Victor is currently a Research & Development engineer at ISDB FlowTech, where he works with R&D and consultancy projects for Oil & Gas applications.

Lorenzo is an undergraduate student of Information Systems at the Fluminense Federal University (Niterói, Rio de Janeiro). He has joined the ISDB FlowTech team in 2021 and has been working with front-end and back-end development (full-stack) of web applications, developed in projects for Oil & Gas companies.

Marcelo has a M.Sc in Mechanical Engineering from PUC-Rio on numerical simulations of multiphase flows. He is currently a R&D Engineer at ISDB FlowTech, where he works with research and development and consultancy projects for Oil & Gas operator and supplier companies. Marcelo has experience working with numerical simulations in multiphase flow, heat transfer, and thermodynamics (PVT behavior), as well as software development and optimization. He is also the Technical Lead of the spin-off company HAI (www.hybridai.com.br)

Maria Rosa holds a M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, and, currently, is a Ph.D. candidate at the same department. Her research focus on the wax precipitation prediction in offshore pipelines. She has experience in multiphase flow simulation, flow assurance analysis, and virtual metering flow. Maria currently holds a R&D Engineer Jr. position where she is involved in hydrate prediction/management and flow assurance consultancy projects.

Mariana has a M.Sc in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE / UFRJ) with 9 years of experience in computational fluid dynamics, focusing on multiphase flows. She has been part of the ISDB FlowTech team for 7 years, working with numerical simulations and model development.

Matheus has a B.Sc degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and has worked on projects related to software development of various products at ISDB FlowTech. He is currently attending a M.Sc degree course at the Systems and Computer Engineering Program of UFRJ in the development of machine learning models, with application to multiphase flows in pipes. Matheus is also a Data Scientist of the spin-off company HAI (www.hybridai.com.br)

Victor Hugo is an undergraduate student of Chemical Engineering at the Federal Fluminense University (Niterói, Rio de Janeiro). In the ISDB FlowTech team since 2022, he has been working with full-stack development of web applications, Artificial Intelligence and physics-based models for upstream Oil & Gas applications.