Dr. Fortunato Villamagna is an innovation leader with over 40+ years of technology innovation, leadership, and waste operations management experience across energetic materials, hazardous materials, renewable energy, energy recovery, waste to energy, and medical and hazardous destruction sectors.
He's been an inventor and leader in research and development, engineering, product management, and operations management, often making markets with his innovations.
As President of Comstock Metals, he brings extensive expertise in developing, commercializing, and rapidly bringing innovative technologies in the waste recycling, destruction, and material recovery sectors to industrial scale.
With a PhD in Physical and Computational Chemistry and an MBA in Global Management, his recent focus is on pioneering new ways to reduce or completely eliminate harmful contaminants of e-waste while increasing throughput capacity.
His team is working to scale advanced recycling technologies and processes aimed at achieving both standard-setting sustainability objectives and recovering optimal yields of valuable materials, solving industry-wide liability challenges and bringing a new standard of closed-loop, environmental stewardship to the solar industry.
Dr. Villamagna holds over 35 patents and has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications, reflecting his longtime commitment to and focus on innovation of sustainable recycling and material recovery practices worldwide.
