Research Areas:
Research Interests:
  • Reactive Transport Modeling: Pore-Scale and Continuum Scale
  • Biogeochemistry
  • Analytical and Numerical Modeling
Education:
  • 2009-2012 Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
  • 2010-2011 Ph.D., ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2007-2009 Ph.D., Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  • 2006 M.S., Environmental Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
  • 2004 B.S., Civil Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

 

Responsibilities:
  • Reviewer in Journal of Advances in Water Resources
  • Teaching assistant of the course global geochemical cycles, School of earth and atmospheric sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Teaching assistant of the course principles of the geochemistry, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University
  • Teaching assistant of the course reactive transport modeling, Department of Earth sciences, Utrecht University
  • Teaching assistant of the course nutrient cycles in wetlands, Department of Biology, Utrecht University
  • Teaching Assistant of the course advanced engineering mathematics, Department of Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
  • Environmental Engineering Consultant in World Bank’s solid waste management project in Tehran, Iran
  • Environmental Engineering Consultant in Pangan Avaran consulting company, Tehran , Iran
  • Structural Engineering Consultant in Farbar consulting company, Tehran, Iran
  • 2012, Research Excellence Award, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Tech
  • 2011, SACNAS Travel Fellowship
  • 2007, Prestigious Marie-Curie Fellowship, European Commission
  • 2006, Prestigious Elton Z. and Lois G. Huff fellowship in Civil Engineering, Auburn University

 

Peer-Reviewed Journal and Conference Papers:

  • Shafei B, Couture R-M, and Van Cappellen P. (2010) Arsenic sorption in aquatic sediments: Equilibrium, kinetic and mixed modeling approaches. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74: Suppl. 1 A938-A938.

  • Shafei B., Huber C., Van Cappellen P., (2012). Validity of local equilibrium assumption in early diagenesis models for sorbing solutes. Advances in Water Resources (submitted).

  • Shafei B., Van Cappellen P., (2012). Arsenic sorption in aquatic sediments: Equilibrium, kinetic and mixed modeling approaches. Environmental Science and Technology (submitted).

  • Shafei B., Couture RM., Van Cappellen P., (2012). A multi-component, non-steady state biogeochemical simulation module of early diagenesis in MATLAB. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (submitted).

  • Couture R-M, Shafei B, Van Cappellen P, Tessier A and Gobeil C. (2010) Non-steady state modeling of arsenic diagenesis in lake sediments. Environmental Science & Technology 44, 197 203,  doi:10.1021/es902077q .

  • Ashtiani BA., Shafei B., et al., (2012). Capture zone of a partially penetrating well with skin effects in confined aquifers. Transport in Porous Media.91:437–457.DOI 10.1007/s11242-011-9853-3.

  • Torres E, Couture R-M, Shafei B, Ruiz Cánovas C, Ayora C (2011) Sediment Diagenesis Modelling in a AMD Contaminated Reservoir. MCLA 15:191-192.

  • Couture R-M, Shafei B, Van Cappellen P, Tessier A, Gobeil C. (2010). Arsenic in lake sediments. Geochimica etCosmochimica Acta 74: Suppl. 1 A193-A193.

  • Huber, C., Shafei B., (2012). Lattice-Boltzmann modeling of the effects of physical and chemical heterogeneities in porous media.  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (submitted).

Conferences:

  • Shafei B., Huber C., Pamagiani A., Taillefert M (2012). A new muliti-species pore-scale reactive transport modeling of arsenic soprtion in dissolving proous media using lattice Boltzmann method. AGU 2012.

  • Van Cappellen P, Couture R-M, Shafei B, Gobeil C, Tessier A. (2009) Arsenic in lake sediments: Resolving historical deposition from biogeochemical transformation. Abstract of papers of the American Chemical Society 237: 27-GEOC.

  • Shafei B., Van Cappellen P (2008). Analysis of the split operator approach for multispecies reactive transport models. Computational Methods in Water Resources 2008.

  • Shafei B., Ataie B (2008). Semi-analytical solution of delineation of capture zone. CMWR 2008.