Matthew Shribman's missions are to make world class science education accessible to everyone, to provoke curiosity and desire for discovery, to empower people to think critically, to act on the basis of evidence and to put nature first, so that we can work towards a brighter, fairer future for all life on Earth.
Matthew is a science communicator, storyteller and environmentalist. He has appeared across the BBC, spoken for TEDx London and UN Ops, been interviewed by Piers Morgan and his online science videos have been viewed over 25M times on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. He holds a 1st Class MChem from the University of Oxford, and his broad expertise range environmental and climate science through to animal migration, cosmology and theoretical physics.
Matthew is head teacher and co-founder of AimHi: the curiosity powered, interactive online school transforming global education. Since its foundation in March 2020, AimHi has reached tens of thousands of students in more than 130 countries, with guests including Dr Jane Goodall and George Monbiot.
As an activist, in 2019, Matthew organised for 1,000 trees to appear outside the UK parliament, giving trees to over 2/3 of the UK's members of parliament. The action was a vehicle for communicating the science around the importance of tree planting. 6 weeks following the action, the UK's tree planting pledge went from 11 million up to a billion. In the words of Ed Miliband: "I think you’ve changed the conversation." In 2018, Matthew began the #NoBeef campaign, which is now supported by Peter Gabriel, Paul McCartney, the University of Cambridge, Goldsmiths University of London, and academics around the world.
As an amatuer filmmaker, Matthew has directed and produced films supported by the French Research Institute For Development and Plastic Oceans Foundation.
Matthew is a Patagonia Change Maker and member of 1% For The Planet. He has also written and recorded music that has been supported by BBC Radio 1, The Times, The Guardian and NME under the moniker Ash Lad.
