About
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil, and a CNPq Research Productivity Fellow, Level 2. My research focuses on nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations, with emphasis on variational methods, critical growth, eigenvalue problems, Ambrosetti-Prodi type problems, Trudinger-Moser inequalities, and Hamiltonian systems.
I received my Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Campinas in 2010. I also hold an M.Sc. in Mathematics from the Federal University of Paraíba. In 2025–2026 I was a postdoctoral visitor at Florida Institute of Technology.
Research interests
Nonlinear elliptic PDEs
Variational methods for semilinear and quasilinear elliptic problems, including p-Laplacian type operators and Hamiltonian systems.
Critical growth
Critical Sobolev growth, Trudinger-Moser nonlinearities, exponential critical growth, and loss of compactness phenomena.
Weighted and singular problems
Hénon type equations, singular nonlinearities, weighted embeddings, and Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg type inequalities.
Critical point theory
Mountain pass methods, linking structures, eigenvalue problems, resonance, and cohomological index techniques.
Overview
journal articles listed in the current Lattes CV.
Ph.D. supervisions, including current and completed work.
completed M.Sc. dissertations supervised.
Administrative service
I have served as Head of the Department of Mathematics at UFPB and as Academic Coordinator of PROFMAT/UFPB. I am currently a member of the Undergraduate Program Committee (Núcleo Docente Estruturante – NDE) of the Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics at UFPB.
Selected publications
Contact
Department of Mathematics
Federal University of Paraíba
Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza — Campus I
Sala 205, Cidade Universitária
58059-900 — João Pessoa, PB, Brazil
E-mail: bhcr@academico.ufpb.br
Phone: +55 83 3216-7434