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Born(1984-02-21) 21 February 1984 (age 40)

Harlow, England, UK

EducationUniversity College London (BA, MA, PhD)
OccupationMathematician, author, radio and television presenter
Children2
Scientific career
ThesisA Study of Droplet Deformation(2011)

Hannah Fry (born 21 February 1984) is a British mathematician, author, and radio and television presenter. She is Professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. She studies the patterns of human behaviour, such as interpersonal relationships and dating, and how mathematics can apply to them. Fry delivered the 2019 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.

Early life and education

Fry is of mixed English and Irish heritage; her father is English, and her mother is from Ireland. One summer, her mother made her solve all the problems in a mathematics textbook, and this put her ahead of the other students in the next school year. She attended Presdales School in Ware, Hertf

Hannah Fry

Hannah is a mathematician, a best-selling author, an award-winning science presenter and the host of humorous popular podcasts and television shows.

In 2023, her new series The Future with Hannah Fry will launch on Bloomberg in February bringing her signature intellectual heft and insight, peppered with her imitable wit to American audiences.

The series questions our collective future and what we want it to look like, with the breakthroughs in science and technology that will transform our lives and society, in a way that happens with us rather than to us.

Her previous documentaries include City in the Sky, Magic Numbers, The Joy of Winning, The Joy of Data, Unvaccinated, Making Sense of Cancer and the 2018 film contagion - the BBC Pandemic a massive citizen science experiment aimed to simulate what would happen if a deadly pandemic were to come to UK, a full two years before the predictions came true.

Hannah regularly writes for the New Yorker, and the book, Hello World - How to be Human in the Age of the Machine, was shortlisted for several of the world's mo

Hannah Fry’s research applies to a wide range of social problems and questions, from shopping and transport to urban crime, riots and terrorism. She is a mathematician, a best-selling author, an award winning science presenter and the host of numerous popular podcasts and television shows.

In 2023 new series The Future with Hannah Fry launched on Bloomberg in February bringing her signature intellectual heft and insight, peppered with her imitable wit to American audiences. The series questions our collective future and what we want it to look like, with the breakthroughs in science and technology that will transform our lives and society, in a way that happens with us rather than to us.

Her recent BBC Two documentary series The Secret Genius of Modern Life received critical acclaim and audience figures and reactions saw her looking at the extraordinary secrets behind the miraculous technologies of the modern world from bank cards, trainers, electric cars and fitness trackers.

Her previous documentaries include City in the Sky, Magic Numbers, The Joy of Winning, The

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