Roger Smart

Roger is a graduate in surface chemistry from the Universities of Western Australia and East Anglia (UK) and has worked at Flinders University (Adelaide), University of Papua New Guinea and Griffith University (Brisbane). At the University of South Australia, he founded the SA Surface Technology Centre in 1987 and was Deputy Director of the Ian Wark Research Institute from its inception to 2002. Since August 2004, he has been Deputy Director of a new Applied Centre for Structural and Synchrotron Studies (ACeSSS) at UniSA. His research interests over 35 years have encompassed surface chemistry and reactions of oxides, sulphides, minerals, ceramics, glasses, polymers, salts and metals; surface spectroscopy; materials and biomaterials science; leaching and dissolution; nuclear waste disposal; solid state reactivity; and adsorption in soil mineral systems. He has published 4 edited books, 25 major reviews as book chapters and more than 200 scientific papers. Since 1988 he has been closely involved with industry in the surface chemistry and modification of mineral and material surfaces in processing through a number of research contracts.This research has focussed on geochemical and surface chemical control of minerals separation by flotation, dissolution kinetics of oxides and sulphides, reactions and particle aggregation in tailings and waste rock systems with particular focus on environmental assessment and control of mining wastes. Roger now works in Blue Minerals Consultancy on acid mine drainage control and environmental planning in remediation of tailings and waste rock from operating and new mines. Minerals Processing; Environmental Waste Processing; Materials Processing; Biomaterials; Surface Science: including surface and solid state chemistry of oxides, sulfides, minerals, ceramics, glasses, polymers, salts and metals; mineral separation; acid mine drainage assessment and control; surface spectroscopy; materials and biomaterials science; leaching and dissolution; nuclear waste disposal; solid state reactivity; adsorption in soil mineral systems.

[2026] Gerson, A. R., Kent, S., Hutchison, B., Ray, D., Smart, R. S. C., & Ferguson, T. (2026). Long-Term Remediation of the Savage River Mine Using Local Neutralising Waste Rock and Novel Flow-Through Waste Storage Facilities. Mine Water and the Environment, 45(1), 96-113. [2025] Fan, R., Qian, G., Zeng, S., Gerson, A., Smart, R., & Short, M. (2025). Long-Term Acid Rock and Tailings Drainage Mitigation through Source Control dataset.