March 2022

Nicola Careddu is Associate Professor of Excavation Engineering at the University of Cagliari, Italy. He obtained the Degree in Mining Engineering in 1995, followed by a PhD in Geoengineering from the University of Cagliari in 1999. 

He teaches courses on “Excavation Engineering and Underground Works” and “Design and Management of Environmental Geoengineering Works” in the MSc courses on Environmental and Land Engineering at the University of Cagliari. 

In the past he taught courses on “Surface Mining” and “Drilling Techniques 1” in the MSc courses on Environmental and Land Engineering.

His main area of expertise is in Mining Engineering, particularly focused on quarrying and enhancement of dimension stones. His research work includes Sustainable Mining, Circular Economy, Geo-heritage and Geoethics and it is carried out both “in situ” and in the Dimension Stone Laboratory at the Department of Civil, Environmental Engineering and Architecture.

Prof. Careddu is the author of more than 80 papers on international journals and as part of conference proceedings. His research activities are funded by regional, national and international entities. 

He is a scientific board member of several specialistic journals and he is and a member of both the organizing and scientific committees of the international congress “Global Stone Congress” as well as co-ordinating international conferences and workshops. 

He regularly acts as a reviewer.

Prof. Careddu is the current chief of the project “Reduction of marble waste landfills through the enhancement of CaCO3”, which is fully funded by Sardinian Regional Government.

Since 2007, he has been the referring academic from the University of Cagliari for the R4ST (Research for Stone and Technology) at the Carrara networking fair. He is supportive of the efforts to link research with industry.

He is a member of the PhD board of the PhD program in Earth and Environmental Sciences and Technologies at the University of Cagliari.

Prof. Careddu is a member of the Heritage Stone Task Group (HSTG) which has been established as a formal entity of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS).

He has worked on expanding the network of researchers and promoted the set-up of several international agreements and memorandum of understandings with universities and research institutes, companies and organizations worldwide.

Further details are available on his LinkedIn profile.

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Previous teachings and score  (MsC courses in Environmental Engineering)

II semester 2009-2010

Drilling Technique 1

Average score given by students at the end of the semester: 3.75 (scale between 1 and 4)

II semester 2008-2009

Drilling Technique 1 

Average score given by students at the end of the semester: 3.67 (scale between 1 and 4)

I semester 2008-2009

Surface Mining

Average score given by students at the end of the semester: 3.67 (scale between 1 and 4)

II semester 2007-2008

Drilling Technique 1

Average score given by students at the end of the semester: 3.57 (scale between 1 and 4)

I semester 2007-2008

Surface Mining 

Average score given by students at the end of the semester: 4.00 (scale between 1 and 4)

I semester 2006-2007

Surface Mining 

Average score given by students at the end of the semester: 3.00 (scale between 1 and 4)

I semester 2005-2006

Surface Mining 

Average score given by students at the end of the semester: 3.00 (scale between 1 and 4)