Helen Reeves is an internationally leading and renowned Chartered engineering geologist, specialising in site, rock mass and geohazard characterisation, assessment and communication. She has 25 years’ postgraduate experience in engineering geology and geohazard research, with over 30 peer review publications, policy review documents/reports and industry commissioned reports covering a range of topics from site and geohazard characterisation & assessments, mapping, rock mass characterisation, and geomechanics. In Jacobs Helen is the Head of Discipline for Geoscience & Engineering Geology (Europe). She is involved in a range of projects with mainly a nuclear site characterisation and geohazard assessment focus. Before joining Jacobs in 2020, Helen was at the British Geological Survey (BGS) for 18 years. For the last 12 years at BGS she was the Science Director for Engineering Geology & Infrastructure. In this role Helen provided regular technical advice to both the UK (Cabinet Office, GO Science - SAGE) and Scottish (e.g. Scottish Resilience) governments through her BGS and Natural Hazard Partnership (NHP) roles. Additionally, she has advised several international boards (e.g. US Transport Research Board), technical scientific groups (US National Research Council, International Ass. Engineering Geology & the Environment, EU Civil Protection) and industry stakeholders (e.g. CIRIA Geotechnical Asset Owners Forum, Network Rail, Highways England, HS2). In 2020 Helen received the Geological Society of London’s Coke Medal; in 2017, the Yorkshire Geological Society’s Bisat Award and in 2015 and she was awarded the Geological Society’s Engineering Geology Group Award.