Hugh Hunt

Hugh Hunt is Professor of Engineering Dynamics and Vibration in Cambridge University's Engineering Department. He is Deputy Director of the Centre for Climate Repair in Cambridge.

His research interests include Climate Repair, Geoengineering and Refreezing the Arctic. He is also interested in railway noise and vibration, gyroscopes and boomerangs, wave power, vibration of bell towers, and renewable energy and is recipient of the Royal Academy of Engineering Rooke Award for the public promotion of engineering.

He is Keeper of the Clock at Trinity College Cambridge.

His television documentaries on Channel 4 (UK), PBS Nova (USA), Discovery, History Channel, SBS (Australia) include:
2011 Dambusters, building the Bouncing bomb (Bombing Hitler's Dams)
2012 Escape from Colditz (Escape from Nazi Alcatraz)
2012 Digging the Great Escape
2013 Zeppelin Terror Attack
2014 D-day 360
2015 Building Hitler's Supergun: The Plot to Destroy London.

As at July 2016 he as a Conversation readership of 1,040,000 most in the UK and the USA and largey as a result of re-publication in prominent journals such as CNN, The Daily Mail, The New Statesman and IFLScience (which definitely reaches younger people).