Roberto Miguel Fustos Toribio

Editorial Board · Mining

Mining Engineer · Statistical Engineer

Mining Engineer and Statistical Engineer, Head of Program (Full Time) at the Universidad de Concepción. His academic and professional work focuses on geostatistical modeling, Bayesian analysis, parallel computing, and natural resources estimation, with applications in mining and geometallurgy.

• Mining Engineering – Universidad de Chile, Chile (2017)
• Statistical Engineering – Universidad de Concepción, Chile (2013)
• BSc in Statistics – Universidad de Chile, Chile (2012)

Roberto Fustos T. currently serves as Head of Program (Full Time) at the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad de Concepción, a position he has held since 2016, where he is responsible for academic management, curriculum development, and the coordination of teaching and research activities. He has also participated as a Part-Time Lecturer at the Universidad de Chile, Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, contributing to undergraduate teaching in engineering and statistics-related courses. Between 2014 and 2016, he worked as a Teaching Assistant at the same faculty, supporting instruction in quantitative methods and applied statistics. In parallel with his academic career, he gained industry experience as a Geometallurgical Modeling Analyst (Full Time) at CSIRO between 2015 and 2017, where he was involved in advanced geostatistical and geometallurgical modeling, Bayesian analysis, and computational approaches applied to natural resource estimation.