Valentina Salomoni

Biography

PERSONAL WEB PAGE:
http://www.gest.unipd.it/it/ruoli/personale-docente?nome=valentina-salomoni
EMAIL: valentina.salomoni@unipd.it
NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS AND DISSEMINATION:
171 Publications among which 50 in International Refereed Journals
H-INDEX 15 in ISI Web of Knowledge, 16 in SCOPUS, 697 SCOPUS citations, 58 citations for the most cited paper.
CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION AND AFFILIATIONS:
Associate Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at the Department of Management and Engineering of the University of Padua, Italy
POSITION IN OTHER ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS:
• 2002-2003: Marie Curie Fellow, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
COMMITTEES AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (selection):
• 2017- : Member of the Academic Board of the PhD Course in “Civil, Environmental and Architectural Sciences”, University of Padua, Italy.
• 2017: Examination Committee Member of the PhD Course in “Civil and Environmental Sciences”, University of Padua, Italy.
• 2015- : Member of the Commission for Lifelong Learning Courses, Macroarea 1, University of Padua, Italy.
• 2010-2017: Member of the Academic Board of the PhD Course in “Civil and Environmental Sciences”, University of Padua, Italy.
• 2009: Examination Committee Member of the PhD Course in “Geotechnical Engineering”, University of Catania, Italy.
CURRENT FUNDINGS FOR THE RESEARCH:
• DOR Funds 2019 (Scientific Responsibility): DOR1999413/19 "Mathematical-numerical modelling of soil response under static and dynamic (cyclic) loads"
• DOR Funds 2018 (Scientific Responsibility): DOR1844491/18 "Thermal storage technologies in solid matrices including PCM"
• PRIN 2017 “Modelling of constitutive laws for traditional and innovative building materials” (Local Unit Coordinator; Scientific Coordinator Prof. A. Carpinteri), Prot. 2017HFPKZY_005.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES (selection):
• Structural Dynamics, Master in Civil Engineering, from 2009
• Solid Mechanics, Master in Product Innovation Engineering, from 2018
• Advanced Solid Mechanics, Master in Mathematical Engineering, ys. 2016-2017
• Solid Mechanics, Master in Environmental Engineering, ys. 2004-2008
RESEARCH TOPICS (selection):
• Geometrically and material non linear problems
• Fully coupled chemo-thermo-hydro-mechanical analysis of structures and structural elements subjected to high temperature conditions
• Non linear problems of soil mechanics and subsidence; geothermal problems
• Heat and mass coupled transport and mechanical behaviour of concrete and geomaterials
• Mechanics of unsaturated porous materials with plasto-damage effects
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES (last 5 years):
• SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE MEMBER within the “XVI International Conference on Computational Plasticity. Fundamentals and Applications - COMPLAS 2021”, September 7 - 10, Barcelona, Spain, 2021.
• MINISYMPOSIUM ORGANIZER (with Prof. W.C. Sun, Columbia University, NY, USA) "Multiscale modeling of concrete and other porous materials" within the World Conference WCCM14, “14th World Congress on Computational Mechanics”, July 19-24, Paris, France, 2020.
• MINISYMPOSIUM ORGANIZER (with Prof. F. Marotti de Sciarra, University of Naples Federico II) “Nonlinear modelling of multiphase materials”, within the Conference “Plasticity, Damage and Fracture 2019”, January 3-9, Panama City, Panama, 2019.
• SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZER (with Prof. C. Majorana, University of Padua, Italy) “Multiscale, Multiphase and Multiphysics Modelling of Geomaterials”, within the 16^ International Conference on Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering Computing CIVIL-COMP 2019, Sept. 16-19, Riva del Garda, Italy, 2019.
INTERNATIONAL AWARDS AND OTHER HONORS:
• EMERALD HIGHLY COMMENDED PAPER 2013: “Thermo-hygro-mechanical meso-scale analysis of concrete as a viscoelastic-damaged material”, autori G. Xotta, V.A. Salomoni, C.E. Majorana, Engrg. Comp., 30(5), 728-750, 2013.
• EMERALD LITERATI AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE 2012: “Highly Commended Award” per l’articolo “Three-dimensional modelling of bond behaviour between concrete and FRP reinforcement”, autori G. Mazzucco, V.A. Salomoni, C. Pellegrino, C.E. Majorana, Engrg. Comp., 28(1), 5-29, 2011;
• IMACS AWARD 2011: 8th Imacs 2011 most successful papers award for the paper “An approach for modeling concrete spalling in finite strains” authors Majorana C.E., Salomoni V.A., Mazzucco G., Khoury G.A., Math. Comp. Sim. (Special Issue), 80(8), 1694-1712, 2010;
• EMERALD LITERATI AWARD 2008: Outstanding papers – Engineering Computations, “Highly Commended Award” for the paper “Mechanical and durability behaviour of growing concrete structures”, authors Salomoni V.A., Mazzucco G., Majorana C.E., Engrg. Comp. 24(5), 536-561, 2007.