Employer Name
Arup
Biography
Occupation: Geomorphologist Employer: Ove Arup & Partners Memo: Kit-Ying (also known as Angel) is the first Chinese awarded the Chartered Geographer status. She is a Geomorphologist with Ove Arup & Partners (Hong Kong) Limited, a global multidisciplinary engineering consultancy firm. She has a BA (Hons) in Physical Geography and an MPhil in Slope Geomorphology from the University of Hong Kong, and a PhD in Landslide Hazard Assessment from Durham University, United Kingdom. Kit-Ying's research work focused on the mechanisms of shallow rainfall-induced landslides in humid tropical environments. She is also interested in understanding the spatial distribution of landslides in the geomorphological context. Since completing her PhD, she is employed in Arup and continues to develop and apply geomorphological knowledge and techniques in a variety of natural terrain hazard studies, site developments and large-scale tunnelling projects for the government and private sectors in Hong Kong. Her work has been published in local and international refereed journals and presented at international geography and geomorphology conferences held in Africa, Australia, Spain, UK and the USA. She is a member of the British Society for Geomorphology (BSG), a Fellow of the Geological Society of London (GSL) and a Chartered Geologist.