Professor Roberto BLUNDO is well known in Italy and in the world as an expert and profound connoisseur of natural clean up biotechnologies; moreover, he is the owner of a large number of patents. Among them, the most important are those related with the "Biocatalysis^®" plants, both as for the clean up process (EEC Patent), and for construction planning (International Patent Pending: P.C.T.). In addition, he takes pride in owning the intellectual property of a patent in Japan, and of other two Italian patents, one in collaboration with ENEA, and the other with Prof. C. H. OPPENHEIMER, thus covering a wide range of processes in the research applied to soil bioremediation.
His devotion to the scientific research applied to environmental clean up, allowed him to hold important roles such as that of: FULLBRIGHT Junior and Senior in Coastal Ecology at University of TEXAS, as well as scientific expert, for more than one year, at the Office of the Leading  Minister for the Ecology (1983, Prime Minister's Office), again in the area of water conservation from pollution.
As a full professor (presently in early retirement), Professor BLUNDO settled first at the Pharmacology and Toxicology Institute at the "Federico II" University (Naples, Italy), and later at the Department of Public Health and Hygiene at "Torvergata" University(Rome, Italy). A former Professor of marine Biology at the University of Maryland (USA) NATO Base, as well as at University of TEXAS, he is also a member of the Undersea MEDICAL Society (California); moreover, he has been University Guest for a two-year period at the Eco-Toxicology  and Environmental Microbiology Laboratory at the "Istituto Superiore di Sanità" (Rome). President of the Italian Association of Coastal Ecology (non-profit organisation since 1972), member of the Board of Directors of the  "Tevere 2000" Foundation, Director of the 1st Ministerial course in CAPRI concerning the Didactics of Coastal Ecology in Italy, he participated to 67 congresses of which 54 in Italy, 8 in Europe, 3 in Asia and 2 in Africa.
He published 46 scientific reports (among which 2 books, together with Prof. C. H. OPPENHEIMER). He has participated to several national "Television and Radio" shows, with "ad personam" interviews concerning the ecologic disasters and about the related  natural remedies, as well as many articles on national newspapers and magazines.
Since 1976 he holds the role of technical scientific director of the company "ECOBIOS Italy" (ROME) of which he is also founder and stockholder. In addition, since 1982 he is also the President of ECOBIOS Incorporation, located in Texas, member of which is also the colleague Prof. C. H. OPPENHEIMER, former Director of the Institute of Marine Science of the University of Texas at Port Aransas.