Career
Parker is the Public Engagement in Mathematics Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. Parker has appeared in numerous YouTube videos, talking about various subjects related to mathematics. While he does have his own YouTube channel, many of Parker"s appearances are on bigger channels such as Brady Haran"s Numberphile and James May"s Head Squeeze (now BritLab).
Parker has toured the United Kingdom both solo and as part of comedy group Festival of the Spoken Nerd, along with Helen Arney and Steve Mould.
His first solo tour Matt Parker: Number Ninja finished in July 2013, while his second solo tour “Matt Parker: Now in 4D” started in late 2014. He has written the book Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension.
Parker is a regular on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Four"s Infinite Monkey Cage with Robin Ince and Brian Cox. He has also talked about maths-related topics on British Broadcasting Corporation News, Sky News, Channel4, CBBC, and occasionally writes for The Guardian.
On television, he is a commentator on nearly every episode of You Have Been Warned (Outrageous Acts of Science).