Warrick Ball completed a BSc (Hons) in Theoretical Physics at the University of Cape Town in 2006. He went on to an MSc in Astrophysics at University College London, which he completed in 2008. He then moved to the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge for his PhD, which he finished in 2012. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Göttingen until the end of 2016, after which he came to the University of Birmingham.