Eftychia works as a Senior Civil Engineer in Amey Consulting’s Structures Team, leading a team specialising in scour, whilst also undertaking part-time PhD Research at the University of Glasgow on the topic of scour, the primary cause of bridge failure worldwide and the main impact of climate change on infrastructure.

She is an Incorporated Engineer (IEng) with the Institution of Civil Engineers and currently possesses two Bachelor’s degrees in Engineering. Effie specialises in scour and prior to joining Amey’s Bridges Team in 2015, she was assisting in research carried out on river restoration at the University of Glasgow.

Effie is leading scour related projects undertaken by Amey and is helping develop innovative scour monitoring and prediction tools and methods. Through her work, Effie is helping advance current techniques, while also providing input to current standards being developed, moving the industry away from grey, hard engineering techniques.

Her work on the topic of scour has been published in several international conferences and journals, while she also undertakes the role of a reviewer for scientific journals. Her projects feature in the new Engineering manual on scour, and she has also been a member of Construction Industry Research and Information Association’s steering committee for the production of the new manual on scour (CIRIA SP171).
The Women’s Engineering Society named Effie as one of the Top 50 Women in Engineering 2020 for her input on Sustainability, and she was also awarded the Women Leaders Association’s Rising Star in STEM. In December 2021, Effie was selected as one of the Young Women Engineers of the Year, winning the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s Young Woman Engineer of the Year WES Prize. Furthermore, Effie was presented with Amey’s Centenary Excel a*ward.

Effie is member of the WES Climate Emergency Group, consisting of engineers from a variety of disciplines, working on influencing the delivery of sustainable solutions, Net Zero Carbon and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, as well as being a very strong advocate for women in Engineering and a very active STEM Ambassador. The group took part in COP26 and Effie also presented at the COP26 Global Youth Engineering Climate Conference.