Gioietta Kuo spent her childhood in the foothills of the Tibetan Plateau - Kham - in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. At the end of WWII, her father took up a job with UNESCO in Paris and she was abruptly dumped into a girls boarding school in Bristol, England, when just 14 years of age with little command of English. After 4 years, she went to Cambridge and Birmingham universities obtaining a PhD in nuclear physics at age 24.
In the following year she lived in Paris, working for the French Commisariat d'Energie Atomique. In 1959 she married a fellow graduate student from Yugoslavia, Goran, and went to live in Zagreb, Croatia where she worked in nuclear physics at Institut Ruder Boskovic. In 1961, she and Goran returned to England, working in computational plasma physics for the UK Atomic Energy Authority's plasma and thermonuclear physics laboratory at Culham, near Oxford. She was the Atlas Computer Fellow at St Hilda's college of Oxford university before coming to the USA to work at Princeton University in 1977.
She is an expert on 3D CT image reconstruction with 2 patents to her name when she worked in Siemens Medical Systems NJ. She has over 70 publications in world class scientific journals in Nuclear Physics, Plasma Physics, Computational Physics, Physical Review etc. Since 2006, she has written over 100 articles on the global environment. Among them many in the Chinese press: ‘People's Daily’ — organ of the Chinese communist party and ‘World Environment’ — Magazine of the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection, she has also written for several Washington think tanks: World Future Society, wfs.org, Worldwatch.org and Futuretakes.org. She was a senior Fellow of her resident think tank American Center for International Policy Studies, amcips.org.
