Esteban has extensive experience and expertise in geomechanical analysis and design for underground mining, numerical modeling, stability analysis, and slope design.
Esteban is a mining engineer, with more than thirty years of experience, who holds a Master of Science (Geophysics) specialised in applied hydrogeology. Additionally, he is an expert in geomechanical analysis and the design of underground mining and surface excavations using 2D and 3D numerical modeling, stability analysis and slope design in open pit mines and tailings dumps.
He has led major open pit and underground mining projects in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, USA, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Mongolia, Peru, Russia, South Africa, Türkiye, Uruguay, and Uzbekistan.
Esteban has both authored and co-authored over 40 technical publications for national and international conferences and is currently the Vice-President for Latin America of the International Society of Rock Mechanics (ISRM).
