Dr. Zourmpakis is a Senior Technical Director with over 25 years of experience who has worked as geotechnical design lead in major, infrastructure, residential, and commercial projects in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He has extensive experience in the delivery of complex ground investigations, foundations for tall buildings and deep basements and has worked on landmark projects, mostly in Europe and the Middle East. His PhD was on collapsible soils and the characterisation of these by means of shear wave velocity and resistivity measurements. He currently leads Langan’s London geotechnical team.