Ricky Nathvani

Ricky Nathvani is an environmental data scientist and writer. He is currently Senior Geospatial Data Scientist at BirdsEyeView, where he forecasts the impacts of natural hazards and climate change around the world. Before getting swept up in the unstoppable tide of data, he started as a physicist with a Master’s from Oxford and a PhD from UCL.

Alongside his research career, Ricky has been a science communicator for over a decade. An awardee of the 2017 Naked Scientists Prize he produced and presented several popular science segments for BBC local radio. He has also written over 125 credited science videos for popular YouTube channels including SciShow, Crash Course, Study Hall and Veritasium, which have collectively amassed over 68 million views. His short story “Beam Therapy” was shortlisted for the Quantum Shorts fiction writing prize in 2017. He was scientific consultant for the 2023 BBC Radio 4 drama “What’s Love Got to Do with it?” and consultant script editor for the educational app “Operation Outbreak”.

He is currently working on the proposal for a book about healthy cities that was a recipient of the 2025 Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Award.