Dr Eirini Nikoloudi
Job: Civil Engineer
Employer: Region of Crete
PhD Thesis: Event management and post event response planning for smart water networks
PhD Supervisors: Professors Zoran Kapelan and Fayyaz Memon
PhD Industrial Supervisor: Dr Michele Romano, United Utilities
Eirini is a Civil Engineer within the public sector in Greece. She works for the Region of Crete in the Department of Environmental Constructions and her role covers both water projects and traditional building constructions. Eirini’s responsibilities include supervising projects, liaison with stakeholders to ensure projects are successfully fulfilled in accordance with regulations, supervising and inspecting construction sites, and developing detailed engineering plans and designs for a range of infrastructure projects to achieve improved safety and efficiency.
Eirini was a WISE CDT doctoral student between 2016-2020 and was based at the University of Exeter. Eirini’s project was developed with United Utilities and she successfully defended her PhD thesis on “Event management and post event response planning for smart water networks” on 11th January 2021. Eirini joined WISE from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), where she had graduated with an MEng in Civil Engineering in 2015.
Work Experience
Eirini completed an internship at the environmental consulting firm ‘Geoveta AB’, Stockholm, Sweden in 2015/2016. The tasks that she dealt with were related to environmental investigation and sampling methods in soil, water and constructions. During the internship, samples from rivers and lakes were taken and analysed for water quality. Additionally, flow measurements were taken to estimate river capacity and the possibility of a flood event. Eirini gained skills in field experience, knowledge of sampling methods, environmental data analysing methods, learning of environmental legislation and understanding of the role of a consultant.
Research Interests
- Smart water networks for a more sustainable water distribution system
- Water quality in the distribution systems
- Control of water quality in natural water sources.
