Kirsty Kuo

About Kirsty

Kirsty is the Technical Specialists Team Lead at Arup, a sustainable development consultancy. She holds a Bachelor of Engineering with First Class Honours and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Western Australia. She completed her PhD with the Dynamics and Vibration Group in the Department of Engineering at Cambridge University, UK in 2011. Her research area involved developing innovative methods for reducing noise and vibration generated by railway trains, especially in underground tunnels. She has also completed a Post-doctoral Research Fellowship at the Research Foundation, Flanders based in KU Leuven, Belgium in 2018. Her research focussed on the modelling of railway vibration in urban areas using a hybrid prediction method.

Prior to this she spent 8 years at the University of Cambridge, completing her PhD and then as a post-doctoral researcher on the UK’s first publicly funded climate engineering project SPICE. She also has a keen interest in the ethical, social, and legal aspects of new technologies.