Veronica is a final-year undergraduate student in the second cycle degree in Construction Engineering at the University of Brescia (Italy), where she is graduating this year, focusing on structural engineering.
Veronica is currently visiting the Centre for Cement and Concrete, in the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering of The University of Sheffield as a research student, from October 2016 to March 2017, thanks to Erasmus+ Traineeship program, funded by the European Union.
She investigates the effect of confinement on the bond behavior of steel reinforcement and concrete in RC structures, through theoretical and numerical studies.