Giordano Madeddu works at the University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy. His current main research interests include non-infectious co-morbidities in HIV patients receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy, epidemiology, and the transmission patterns of HIV infection. He is currently focusing on the prevalence and risk factors for COPD in HIV-infected patients. He has also been involved in research studies regarding arboviral infections as a cause of CNS infections, and the circulation of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae as the cause of Mediterranean spotted fever in Sardinia. He has 197 publications with 4365 citations and an h-index of 34 (Scopus, 16 October 2023).