Dr Hugh Hunt is Reader in Engineering Dynamics and Vibration in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College. His principal interests are in dynamics and vibration, gyroscopes and boomerangs. Other research includes the control of vibration from underground railway, bells and clocks and wind turbines.
His most recent research is in the fields of renewable energy and geoengineering, including the SPICE project - technology for cooling the Earth by 2 degrees C if CO2 emissions targets are not met. He is co-director of the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge.
Dr Hunt does television work and was Lead Engineer in award-winning documentaries ("Dambusters: building the bouncing bomb", "Digging the Great Escape", "Escape from Colditz" and "Attack of the "Zeppelins") which have been broadcast around the world. He took his first degree in Engineering from Melbourne University, Australia and has a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has accumulated an impressive collection of boomerangs, many of the home-made. He uses these to inspire students in the study of Dynamics and Mechanics.
