SERAFEINA LAZARIDOU
Sera is a Civil Engineer with a 20-year professional experience in a leading consultancy firm in Greece, Hydroexigiantiki Consulting Engineers. She graduated from the National Technical University of Athens where she specialized in Hydraulic works and Water Recourses Management and holds an MSc in Soil Mechanics and Environmental Geotechnics from Imperial College in London, U.K.
She initially worked as a Geotechnical Engineer and later joined Hydroexigiantiki where she works, as an Engineering Manager, on water works design, especially dams. Her experience focuses on multipurpose earthfill and rockfill dam design at all implementation stages and extends to dam safety issues such as First Filling, Surveillance and Emergency Action Plans.
As member of supervision and support consulting teams, she has participated in the construction and first filling of major dam projects in Greece, while she has also worked on other dam related issues such as Water Resources Management for dam projects, dam sedimentation and dam break analysis. She is an ISO 9001 certified Auditor/Lead Auditor and currently Vice President of GCOLD and substitute member at the Greek Dam Administrative Authority.