Department of Civil, Environmental and Architecture Engineering
Curriculum updated in March 2026
Battista Grosso
Academic position: Full Professor – Faculty of Engineering – University of Cagliari
Qualifications: Degree in Mining Engineering ; PhD in Mining Engineering – Underground construction
University researcher in the SSD I16 A - Excavation and Mining Engineering sector (now CEAR-02/B)- Excavation and Safety Engineering), at the Department of Mining and Mineralurgical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Cagliari, since April 1993.
Associate professor in the SSD CEAR-02/B - Excavation and Safety Engineering, at the DIGITA of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Cagliari, since January 2005.
Full Professor in the SSD CEAR-02/B - Excavation and Safety Engineering, from January 2022
Educational activity
Geotechnics Course from 1999 - 2000 to 2013 - 2014
Numerical Laboratory of design- oriented subjects (5 credits) from 1999 - 2000 to 2010 - 2011
Tunnel Construction course 1999 – 2000 and up to 2003-2004
Tunnel Construction course from 2000/01 to 2010.
Design and Management of Environmental Geoengineering Interventions from 2016 - 2017 to 2020 - 2021
Environmental Geoengineering course from the 2020-2021.
Rock Mechanics from the 2010 - 2011.
Recent management positions
From 2014 to 2021 he was Director of the Laboratory of the PoliLab Engineering Faculty.
Since 2021 he has been Director of the National Interuniversity Consortium for Georesource Engineering.
Since 2022 he has been Scientific Manager for the University of Cagliari of the PNRR RETURN Project - multi-Risk sciEnce for resilienT commUnities undeR a changiNg climate (https://www.fondazionereturn.it/) - Project code MUR: PE00000005 – CUP UNINA: E63C22002000002
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