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Aoife is a Professor of Crowd Safety and Security Science at the University of Greenwich and a leading specialist in people movement, crowd dynamics and emergency evacuation strategies. She has over 17 years’ experience in simulating human behaviour and pedestrian dynamics and has led high profile projects across the globe, advising on all aspects of people movement and behaviour in buildings, hospitals, stadia and events, the public realm, and transport systems. She has delivered more than 80 projects in pedestrian and evacuation planning, contributing to capacity assessments, design reviews, event and concert planning, vertical circulation assessments, static and dynamic crowd modelling, flow and density analysis, and alternative use assessments. She leads research projects to advance the safety and security of crowded places, specialising in human behaviour in emergencies and pedestrian movement through security overlays, including through hostile vehicle mitigation (HVM) barriers, and search and screening checkpoints. She is a specialist in designing CCTV studies of human behaviour and led the world’s largest study into virus transmission risk behaviours in crowded places during the COVID-19 pandemic.