Kate Hendry grew up in Surrey and Shropshire, and gained a love of the ocean from her parents and her big sisters. She studied Natural Sciences as an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, before completing a doctorate at Oxford University in Antarctic biogeochemistry. Hendry was awarded a postdoctoral scholarship to work at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States, before returning to the UK as a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. She has been recognised internationally as winner of the 2016 Houtermans Medal for geochemistry. Hendry is now a senior scientist at the British Antarctic Survey in the Polar Oceans Team, researching into ocean chemistry in the Arctic and Antarctic.
