I'm Bruno, a civil engineer passionate about water resources and geophysical phenomena.I'm proud to be part of the geohazards research team at the University of British Columbia, where I am a Ph.D. student in Geological Engineering. My research at the Department of Earth, Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences involves the numerical modelling of dam breaches and tailings runout.My academic background also includes a master's degree from the Graduate Program in Sanitation, Environment, and Water Resources at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. In my dissertation, I adopted a multidisciplinary approach to describe the behavior of flows resulting from hypothetical tailings stack failures. I aimed to contextualize the modeling of these phenomena within a Continuum Mechanics framework and to employ various constitutive relations and non-trivial input variables.Over the last four years, I've had the privilege of undertaking challenging projects, such as dam breach and stack break studies, hyperconcentrated flow modeling, decharacterization of dams, and different water management solutions. Throughout this professional journey, I've recognized the importance of both technical proficiency and interpersonal abilities among the teams and clients I've collaborated with.The fields that arouse my curiosity the most involve the potentials and limitations of numerical methods, mathematical models, and constitutive relationships for representing geophysical phenomena – such as tailings flows, earthflows, landslides, and failure of tailings structures.In my spare time, I enjoy playing the drums and improving my carrot cake recipes.