Dr. Valentino Vigneri

Dr. Valentino Vigneri works as post-doctoral researcher at the "Chair of Steel and Composite Structures" at ETH Zurich since February 2021.

Valentino Vigneri studied civil engineering between 2011 and 2014 at "Università del Salento" (Italy). After that, he moved to "Politecnico di Torino" (Italy) where he finalized the MSc degree in 2016. In the last year of the MSc, he had the opportunity to study at "Imperial College London" (UK) as a part of a European exchange program. In this period, he took exams of the MEng courses and he worked on his MSc thesis focusing on the performance of rubberized concrete columns under seismic load.

In January 2017, he moved to "University of Luxembourg" (Luxembourg) for starting his PhD in the field of composite steel-concrete structures. During this four-year experience, he investigated in detail the behaviour of headed stud shear connections employed in composite beams with the support of experimental, numerical and analytical tools and his research work has been published in several top tier scientific journals and international conferences. In January 2021, he defended successfully his dissertation entitled "Load bearing mechanisms of headed stud shear connections in profiled steel sheeting transverse to the beam" supervised by Prof. Christoph Odenbreit (University of Luxembourg). In this period, he also supported the group CEN/TC250/SC4 for the revision of European standards for construction (EN 1994-1-1) in close collaboration with industries and several universities.

Starting from February 2021, he has joined the "Chair of Steel and Composite Structures" to work on the transfer of the longitudinal shear force in composite steel truss and concrete beams. His research includes: experimental evaluation and numerical modelling of shear connectors in composite beams as well as reliability analysis of resistance models.