Roberto Villas Boas graduated in Mining Engineering from the Polytechnic School of USP (1968), Master of Science in Metallurgical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines (1971), United States, and Doctor of Engineering Sciences, Engineering and Materials Science from COPPE, UFRJ (1977).
It researcher of the Center for Mineral Technology – CETEM. He was Assistant Professor IV, gazetted, retired in 1998, the then School of Engineering, Polytechnic School today at UFRJ and COPPE Program Assistant Professor of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials, 1971-1998.
Visiting Professor at several universities. Universities such as São Paulo, Brazil; Universita degli Studi La Sapienza, Rome, Italy; Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina, Universidad de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia; Institute of Earth moving y Metallurgy, Moa, Cuba; Henry Krumb School of Mines, Columbia University, New York, USA; Washington & Lee University, Lexington, USA, “Director of Mastery” of UNIARA, Universidad Internacional de Andalucia, La Rabida, Spain, and others.
Superintendent and Director of CETEM, between 1978-1998, with a break from 1987 to 1990, having served in this period, the positions of Vice President Paulo Abib Engenharia Mineral in São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, Brazil (1987 to early de1989), and Secretary for New Materials of the Ministry of Science and Technology, management Renato Archer (1989-1990). It was the International Coordinator Subprogram Mineral Technology, CYTED / XIII, between 1998 to 2005 and Chairman of IMAAC / UNIDO. Was Vice President of OLAMI, the Latin American Mining, 2002-2008.
Since 2009, International Area Manager is “Promoción al Desarrollo Industrial” Program CYTED. Conducted post-doctoral, by the Academy of Natural Sciences of China in Beijing in 1991. Council was at USP, Vice-President of the Central Directory of Students – DCE / USP, 1966/67; Advisor FINEP, CNPq as representanre, 91/92, i was President of ABIPTI – Brazilian Association of Industrial Research Institutions .
He was Director of the Pan American Union of Engineers – UPADI-.
He has extensive experience in consulting, research, counseling and teaching in the area of Mining Engineering, Mineral and Materials, with an emphasis on the Mining-Metallurgical Processes and Sustainable been working on the issues of mining, the environment, sustainable development indicators sustainability, materials technology and planning of experiments statistician. Participated as a consultant and participates in several projects of UNEP, Paris, related to Mercury in biota and TransApell, IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, on environmental recovery of areas degraded by mining uranium, and UDEPO ThDEPO, UNIDO, Vienna on mercury in gold mining areas and clean technologies, GEF / UNDP / UNIDO, has been Coordinator in Brazil’s Global Mercury Project.
He is the author and editor of 27 books about books, all available on the Web, and hundreds of scientific articles, guiding several MSc and PhD theses. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Mineral and military engineer, and is Chairman of the Sustainability Committee of the International Mineral Processing Council (IMPC) as well as Director of the same Consellho.