Peter Knott
Chief Technician
Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction
University of Cambridge
Peter Knott is CSIC’s Chief Technician. He is responsible for overseeing all aspects of in-situ monitoring equipment installation, including the planning and design of fibre optic sensors deployment.
His work involves:
- Constructing test rigs for one-off experiments
- Fabrication of working models, involving the machining of high precision components from drawings supplied by the students
- Strain gauging of models to evaluate data
- Wiring and data logging
- Assembling sophisticated deployable space structures