Francesco Pinna

Type A Researcher (RtdA) at the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering (DICAAR) of the University of Cagliari, affiliated with SSD ING-IND 28.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

2021: PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences with a thesis titled "PM Emissions from Tailings Exposed to Wind Erosion" | Curriculum: Geoengineering and Environmental Technologies | University of Cagliari | SSD ING-IND 28

2018: Professional Engineer License

2017: Master's Degree in Environmental and Territorial Engineering with a thesis titled "Rock Foundation Consolidation through Cementitious Grout Injection: The Real Case of Monte Nieddu Dam" (grade: 110/110 cum laude) | Curriculum: Geoengineering and Soil Defense | University of Cagliari

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

From A.Y. 2023-2024: Professor of the Construction Site Lab | Professionalizing Degree Course in Techinques for building construction and land development | University of Cagliari 

From A.Y. 2021-2022: Professor for the Laboratory on Safety and Organization of Work on Construction Sites | Master Degree Course in Environmenta engineering for sustanable development | University of Cagliari 

From 2020 to present: Supplementary teaching activities in courses on "Occupational Health and Safety" and "Safety and Organization of Work on Construction Sites". Responsible Professor: Prof. Valentina Dentoni

From 2020 to 2022: Supplementary teaching activities in the course "Work Safety and Environmental Defense". Responsible Professor: Prof. Giorgio Massacci

From 2018 to 2019: Supplementary teaching activities in the course "Design and Management of Environmental Engineering Interventions". Responsible Professor: Prof. Battista Grosso

Since 2019: Co-supervisor for numerous Master's theses in Environmental and Territorial Engineering

ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Since 31/12/2022: RtdA at the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering (DICAAR) of the University of Cagliari. Research activities focused on developing innovative processes and technologies for the transport, handling, and storage of granular materials (raw materials, intermediate products, finished products, and processing waste) used and produced in the mineralurgical and metallurgical industrial sector.

2019-2022: Research Fellow at the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering (DICAAR) of the University of Cagliari. Experimental study of PM emissions from mining and metallurgical waste exposed to wind erosion.

2018: Collaborator at the National Interuniversity Consortium for Engineering of Georesources (CINIGeo). Research activities involved experimental study of emission factors for wind erosion and critical analysis of the state-of-the-art on reusing Posidonia oceanica beachcast, aiming to assess the technical-economic feasibility of a waste recovery and treatment line in the Sardinia region.

PUBLICATIONS, CONFERENCES, AND SEMINARS

The list of scientific publications is available at: Link to Publications

2019: Speaker at the VI Symposium on Mining Activities in the Mediterranean Basin | Iglesias

2018: Speaker at the international conference MPES-SWEMP 2018 | Santiago, Chile

ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Coordinator of the Orientation Commission for the Professionalizing Degree in Construction Techniques and Territory at the University of Cagliari

Coordinator of the Construction Laboratory within the Professionalizing Degree in Construction Techniques and Territory at the University of Cagliari

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Member of the research group for the project "Production Landscapes through Energy Transitions: Industrial heritage preservation, socio-political processes and potential reuse in Lombardy, Sardinia, and Calabria" (PRIN 2022 Grant)

Member of the research group for the CESA project - Landfill Treatment, funded by IGEA S.p.A.

Member of the research group for the RE - MINE action 3 project (Analysis of fine dust emission and atmospheric dispersion), funded by the University of Cagliari and the Fondazione di Sardegna.

Updated as of May 2024.