Marcus du Sautoy

Marcus du Sautoy
Marcus du Sautoy at the Royal Society admissions day in July 2016
Born	Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy (1965-08-26) 26 August 1965 (age 51) London, England, UK
Citizenship	British
Fields	Mathematics, Science Communication
Institutions	All Souls College, Oxford Wadham College, Oxford New College, Oxford Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Alma mater	Wadham College, Oxford
Thesis	Discrete Groups, Analytic Groups and Poincaré Series (1989)
Doctoral advisor	Daniel Segal
Known for	The Music of the Primes
Notable awards	Berwick Prize (2001) Michael Faraday Prize (2009) OBE (2010)
Spouse	Shani Ram
Website people.maths.ox.ac.uk/dusautoy
Marcus du Sautoy's voice Recorded January 2011 from the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time

Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy FRS OBE /dᵿˈsoʊtɔɪ/, (born 26 August 1965) is the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. Formerly a Fellow of All Souls College, and Wadham College, he is now a Fellow of New College. He was previously President of the Mathematical Association, an EPSRC Senior Media Fellow and a Royal Society University Research Fellow.

His academic work concerns mainly group theory and number theory. In October 2008, he was appointed to the Simonyi Professorship for the Public Understanding of Science, succeeding the inaugural holder Richard Dawkins.

Du Sautoy was born in London, grew up in Henley-on-Thames and was educated at local comprehensives Gillotts School and King James's College (VI Form, now Henley College) and Wadham College, Oxford, where he obtained first class honours in Mathematics. He went on to complete his DPhil in mathematics.