Effie is a Technical Director at Amey and an internationally recognised scour expert. She is a Chartered Engineer, member of the ICE and the IET, she is currently undertaking PhD Research at the University of Glasgow on the topic of scour and she is a member of the WES Climate Emergency Group. Effie is leading scour related projects UK-wide and is developing innovative scour monitoring and prediction tools and methods that help safeguard infrastructure at risk, the travelling public and the environment. Her work on scour has received various awards, it has been published internationally, and she has also been a member of Construction Industry Research and Information Association’s steering committee for the new manual on scour.