Dr. Sergei Sabanov started his carrier in 1992 working in the underground oil shale mines in Estonia before he received his PhD grade in mining engineering in 2008. Dr. Sabanov was executing multiple projects and teaching at a time, tracking technical progress, and reporting on both to the university and to the mining companies, and regulatory and technical review boards. Dr. Sabanov industry experience with reserves estimate, mine ventilation, mine optimisation, mine design and production scheduling, blasting operations, material handling, mine services and maintenance, mine automation, mine closure, sustainable mining, and mining risk management enabled him to understand detailed requirements of mining companies in mining specialists. Dr. Sabanov is responsible for implementation of students’ theoretical knowledge to industrial practices, optimising study programmes to real life work of mining projects. For teaching, he use a variety of innovative teaching methods, technologies stimulated engagement in class, and demonstrated a comprehensive expertise. Dr. Sabanov also using an operational state-of-the-art research laboratory on ventilation and a vast number computer software.