Stephanie Castro Baldivieso is a Glenn T. Seaborg Postdoctoral Research Associate at Idaho National Laboratory, where she focuses on the speciation of rare earths and transition metals in molten chloride and iodide salts. To study the chemical speciation, she utilizes various techniques: electrochemistry, spectroscopy, calorimetry, electron pulse radiolysis and microscopy.
From her undergraduate degree in Chemistry at Florida International University, her passion for recycling used nuclear fuel sparked as she focused on the synthesis of different organic ligands utilized in solvent-extraction techniques to separate different elements from the fuel. Stephanie's 5 years of experience in molten salt chemistry started from her PhD. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, where she focused on the electrochemical recovery of different rare earth elements in molten salt systems.
Besides working on molten salts, Stephanie enjoys fly fishing, and she is part "The Mayfly Project" where she teaches foster care children about fly fishing, conservation, and being outdoors. more info: https://themayflyproject.com/idaho-falls-idaho-project/

Radiation chemistry
Molten salt electrochemistry
Thermodynamic properties of alloys
Phase diagrams
Thermochemical properties of molten salts