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Hugh Hunt

LOCATION

Cambridge, UK

PROFESSION

Reader in Engineering Dynamics and Vibration, University of Cambridge

About

I'm a Reader in Cambridge University's Engineering Department and recipient of the Royal Academy of Engineering Rooke Award for the public promotion of engineering. My research interests include railway noise and vibration, gyroscopes and boomerangs, wave power, vibration of bell towers, and renewable energy. I'm a is Keeper of the Clock at Trinity College Cambridge. My 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.