Prof. Dr. Viktor Gribniak

Dr Viktor Gribniak is the Head of Laboratory of Innovative Building Structures and Professor of Department of Steel and Composite Structures at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Vilnius Tech), Lithuania. From 1989 to 1994, he studied Applied Mathematics at Vilnius University. From 1994 to 2009 received a BSc, MSc, and PhD in Structural Engineering at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. During that time, V. Gribniak worked as an engineer in several building companies in Lithuania with a total working experience of over ten years. In 2011-2012, Dr V. Gribniak expanded the core scientific competency during the postdoctoral internship in the civil engineering centres in Austria, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic. Dr V. Gribniak is a co-author of several patents and more than 170 scientific publications and more than 70 of them in journals referred to in the ISI Web of Science (WoS) database. Since 2010, more than 60 presentations have been made at conferences in the USA, Argentina, South Africa, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, and the Czech Republic. The research interests by V. Gribniak are related to material characterisation and mechanics of composites; noticeable results achieved in constitutive and numerical modelling of composite structures.