Hugh Hunt

Professor Hugh Hunt is Deputy Director of the Centre for Climate Repair. He is Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of Trinity College. 

He has been actively involved in the field of geoengineering since 2010 when he was co-PI of the SPICE project (Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering). He led a team who proposed a small-scale experiment to assess the viability of SAI (Stratospheric Aerosol Injection). He is now PI of a new UK-government-funded ARIA SAI project to extend our understanding of geoengineering through research and experiment. 

Hugh also has significant experience working with the media and has produced numerous documentaries for Channel 4 and other mainstream channels. He is a leader in public engagement on engineering and was awarded the RAEng Rooke Award by the Royal Academy of Engineering for his contribution to society.

Projects

Hugh leads the Natural Materials for Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAIM) project supported by the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA), in collaboration with Harvard University and Imperial College London. He also supports various projects on Marine Cloud Brightening and across the Centre.

Articles by Hugh Hunt

• The disagreement between two climate scientists that will decide our future - The Conversation
• Geoengineering is necessary to refreeze the Arctic & stabilize the Northern Hemisphere’s weather system - ClimateGenn
• COP29 must acknowledge geoengineering as necessary to fight extreme climate impacts - ClimateGenn
• What could we do to cool the Arctic, specifically?
• Geoengineering is politically off-limits – could a Trump presidency change that? - The Conversation
• Geoengineering: the scientists who argue modifying the climate could buy the world time – The Conversation podcast
• X-57: Nasa’s electric plane is preparing to fly – here’s how it advances emissions–free aviation - The Conversation