Hannah Fry

A prominent mathematician and broadcaster, Hannah Fry is a familiar face, having presented maths and science programmes for both the BBC and radio.

As a professor at UCL in the mathematics of cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Fry is a leading expert in her specialist field. Her work studies the patterns of human behaviour in urban environments and how numbers and formulas can predict patterns and explain behaviours linked to, for example, interpersonal relationships, dating and even shopping habits. Fry has also carried out extensive research on artificial intelligence and new ways in which we can use it, discussed extensively in her book Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine. As a presenter, Fry has appeared on the BBC Four TV programmes Trainspotting Live and The Joy of Data. Of her radio appearances, she co-hosts her regular Radio 4 show The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry and has also featured on Computing Britain, Can Math’s Combat Terrorism and Music by Numbers on Radio 1.

An incredibly popular speaker, Fry has presented a TED talk The Mathematics of Love, revealing the stats behind romance. A hit subject amongst audiences, Fry has gone on to publish a book on the subject and also featured the topic during her appearance on the Horizon episode How to Find Love Online. An award-winning professor, in 2013 Fry was awarded UCL’s Provost’s Public Engager of the Year award and in 2018 she was awarded the Christopher Zeeman Medal by the Institute of Mathematics and the London Mathematical Society.