Kit Yates is an author, broadcaster and academic who specializes in the role of mathematics in everyday life. As a speaker, he can explain scientific material in an understandable way with humor and expertise. Kit Yates is Director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath and completed his PhD in Mathematics at the University of Oxford.

He is the author of two books, “Why math is (almost) everything… and how it determines our lives” (a Sunday Times Science Book of the Year) and “How to predict what no one expects” (a Waterstones Popular Science Book of the Year).

Kit Yates is a prominent commentator on the role of math/science in society and writes regularly for the Guardian, the Independent and other media. He regularly appears on radio programs such as the BBC’s “More or Less” and “Inside Science” as well as TV news programs and documentaries.