Hannah Fry

Dr Hannah Fry is a keynote speaker and presenter on science on the uses of mathematics. There are few superstar mathematicians but Hannah Fry is definitely one. In her role as Associate Professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London she investigates how mathematics can give us insights into human behaviour.

Hannah Fry is a natural communicator with skills on stage honed in stand up comedy. On TV Hannah has contributed to BBC TV documentaries including City in the Sky, Britain’s Greatest Inventions, and Climate Change By Numbers, Horizon: How to Find Love Online, and The Joy of Data. Calculating Ada: The Countess of Computing told of the life of the extraordinary ninetennth-century computing pioneer, Ada Lovelace. And Dr Hannah Fry is in the starting line-up of BBC’s The Celebrity Traitors, Season Two, 2026.

Back in 2018 Hannah Fry’s television documentary Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic was a sophisticated nationwide experiment to help to plan for ‘the next deadly pandemic’. In an experiment billed by The Guardian as ‘the viral hit that’ll have you reaching for the hand sanitiser’ Dr Fry played the part of ‘Patient Zero’ in the town of Haslemere.

Dr Hannah Fry is the author of Hello World, The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus: The Mathematics of Christmasand of The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs, and the Search for the Ultimate Equation. She delivered Royal Institution Christmas Lectures of 2019 on the hidden power of mathematics.

Dr Fry’s work for BBC Horizon in 2020 reflected on how data enabled her to predict the COVID-19 pandemic, and how mathematical modelling continues to played such a vital role in tracking the the virus. Hannah Fry’s Coronavirus Special of April 2020 also looked to answer the question ‘How Do Vaccines Protect the Population?’ explaining the mathematics of immunity. The programme speculated that a vaccine would take between a year and eighteen months to develop and that ‘that would be an exceptionally fast turnaround’. That seems along time ago now. She now has a YouTube channel with one hundred million views and with Michael Stevens runs the podcast The Rest is Science. You can contact Hannah Fry via a Specialist Speakers agent on +44 0204 616 0868 for in-person or virtual speaking engagements in all territories.