Professor Hugh Hunt

Professor Hugh Hunt is Professor of Engineering Dynamics and Vibration at Cambridge University. His research centres on climate change and how we might refreeze the arctic. Other research interests include noise and vibration from underground trains, pendulum clocks and spinning things that fly.

Hugh is a regular presenter on television documentaries including "Dambusters: Building the Bouncing Bomb", "Attack of the Zeppelins", "Escape from Colditz" and "Guy Martin Wall of Death". He is Keeper of the Clock at Trinity College, a clock which is demonstrably the most accurate tower clock in the world. He has an impressive collection of boomerangs which he uses to inspire students in the study of dynamics and mechanics.