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Arthur Brooks, Ph.D.

Louis A. Bantle Professor of Business and Government Policy at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and Whitman School of Management. Dr. Brooks is also a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He earned his Ph.D. in public policy analysis from the Rand Graduate School in 1998, and also holds an M.A. and B.A. in economics. Dr. Brooks has published approximately 100 articles and books on the connections between culture, politics, and economic life in America. He speaks frequently in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, New York Sun, Condé Nast Portfolio, and other publications. His newest book is entitled Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America-and How We Can Get More of It. Other recent books include Who Really Cares (2006) about American charitable giving, and the textbook Social Entrepreneurship (2008).

John T. Cacioppo, Ph.D.

Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor, director of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, and director of the Arete Initiative at the University of Chicago. Dr. Cacioppo completed his Ph.D. at Ohio State University and served on the faculty at the University of Notre Dame (1977-1979), University of Iowa (1979-1989), Ohio State University (1989-1999), Bijzonder Hoogleraar Sociale Neurowetenschappen (external professor chair in social neurosciences) Free University Amsterdam (2003-2007), and University of Chicago (1999-present). He has published seventeen books and more than 375 articles, chapters, and reviews. His research helped establish the field of social neuroscience, which concerns the neural, hormonal, and genetic mechanisms underlying the emergent structures (beyond the individual organism) created by social species to promote survival, reproduction, and care for offspring sufficiently long that they too reproduced. Dr. Cacioppo is a recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Troland Research Award (1989), the Society for Psychophysiological Research Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution (1981) and their Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychophysiology (2000), the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Donald Campbell Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions (2000), the American Psychosomatic Society Patricia R. Barchas Award (2004), the Psi Chi Distinguished Member Award (2006), the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award (2002), and an honorary doctorate from Bard College (2004). He is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1990), Society of Experimental Psychologists, Association for Psychological Science (1989), American Psychological Association (1984), International Organization of Psychophysiology (1987), Society for Personality and Social Psychology (1984), Society of Behavioral Medicine (1998), Academy of Behavioral Medicine (1986), and American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003), and a past president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (1992-1993), the Society for Consumer Psychology (1989-1990), the Society of Personality and Social Psychology (1995), and the Association for Psychological Science (2007-2008).

Dorothy F. Chappell, Ph.D.

Dean of natural and social sciences at Wheaton College. Dr. Chappell served for five years as academic dean at Gordon College and as a trustee of Wheaton College. An accomplished teacher, mentor, and faculty leader, Dr. Chappell served as chair of the biology department, vice chair of the faculty, and chair of the faculty personnel committee at Wheaton. She completed her bachelor's degree in biology at Longwood College in Virginia, her master's degree in biology at the University of Virginia, and her Ph.D. in botany from Miami University in Ohio. Dr. Chappell has received several National Science Foundation grants, as well as a Fulbright Scholar grant for research at Massey University in New Zealand and has published on the cell biology and phylogeny of green algae and some bioethical issues. A former president of the American Scientific Affiliation, Dr. Chappell also is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Association for University Women, the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the Botanical Society of America, the Fulbright Association, the Phycological Society of America, and Sigma Xi. She is co-editor of the book, Not Just Science, which was released in August 2005.

Philip Clayton, Ph.D.

Ingraham Professor at the Claremont School of Theology and professor of philosophy and religion at the Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Clayton was most recently visiting professor at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. He has also taught at Haverford College, Williams College, and the California State University. Dr. Clayton has held visiting posts as Humboldt Professor at the University of Munich, senior Fulbright fellow, also in Munich, and guest professor at Harvard Divinity School. Dr. Clayton has a Ph.D. in both religious studies and philosophy from Yale University. He is a past winner of the Templeton Book Prize for best monograph in the field of science and religion and a winner of the first annual Templeton Research Prize. Dr. Clayton is the author or editor of fifteen books and some 100 articles in the philosophy of science, metaphysics, theology, and related fields. Publications include The Problem of God in Modern Thought; God and Contemporary Science; Explanation from Physics to Theology: An Essay in Rationality and Religion; Quantum Mechanics: The Problem of Divine Action; Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective; In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being: Panentheistic Reflections on God's Presence in a Scientific World; Science and the Spiritual Quest; and Practicing Science, Practicing Faith: Twelve Scientists in the Quest for Integration. His current research interest lies in exploring the philosophical and religious implications of emergence theory, published as Mind and Emergence: From Quantum to Consciousness (2004) and In Quest of Freedom: The Emergence of Spirit in the Natural World (2007). From 1999 to 2003, Dr. Clayton served as principal investigator of the Science and the Spiritual Quest program at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.

Paul C. Davies, Ph.D.

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Freeman J. Dyson

Now retired, having been for most of his life professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He was born in England and worked as a civilian scientist for the Royal Air Force in World War II. Professor Dyson graduated from Cambridge University in 1945 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, went on to Cornell University as a graduate student in 1947, and worked with Hans Bethe and Richard Feynman. His most useful contribution to science was the unification of the three versions of quantum electrodynamics invented by Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga. He has written a number of books about science for the general public. Professor Dyson is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 2000, he was awarded the Templeton Prize.

Kitty Ferguson

Retired professional musician, including singing, conducting chamber ensembles, and performing under the batons of Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein, and Leopold Stokowsky. Ms. Ferguson has a B.M. and M.S. from the Juilliard School. During a sojourn in 1986-87 in Cambridge, England, where her husband was a visiting fellow, she became acquainted with many eminent scientists. When the Ferguson's returned to the United States, she retired from music-making and-inspired by a science fair project that she helped her eight-year-old daughter create about black holes-began to write and lecture about science. Her books, which have been translated into many languages, include Black Holes in Spacetime (for young adults); the best-seller Stephen Hawking: Quest for a Theory of Everything; The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God; Prisons of Light: Black Holes; Measuring the Universe; Tycho and Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership that Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens (British title: The Nobleman and His Housedog); and her most recent book, The Music of Pythagoras. The Fire in the Equations, which first appeared in 1994, was republished in a revised and updated edition by the Templeton Foundation Press in 2004. Ms. Ferguson has been a part of many workshops, lecture series, and television and radio panels in the U.S.A., Great Britain, and Italy; written for Astronomy Magazine, The Anglican, The Living Church, and Time Magazine's Time for Kids, contributed a chapter to Russell Stannard's God for the Twenty-First Century, and served as primary consultant for Stephen Hawking's The Universe in a Nutshell. She is a member of the Episcopal Guild of Scholars.

Harvey M. Friedman, Ph.D.

Distinguished university professor of mathematics, computer science, and philosophy at Ohio State University, Columbus, since 1987, where he was previously professor since 1977. He was recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records as youngest professor, when he was appointed assistant professor of philosophy at Stanford University, immediately after he received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his dissertation on subsystems of set theory and analysis. His research interests include the foundations of mathematics, mathematical logic, philosophy of mathematics, model theory, recursion theory, set theory, proof theory, complexity theory, proof verification, and music performance software. In 1984, Dr. Friedman received the Alan T. Waterman Award "for his revitalization of the foundations of mathematics, his penetrating investigations into the Gödel incompleteness phenomena, and his fundamental contributions to virtually all areas of mathematical logic" by the National Science Foundation. In December that same year, he was named one of the top 100 scientists in the United States under 40 by Science Digest. In 1985, Dr. Friedman was invited by President Ronald Reagan to the White House to recognize outstanding scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. His major addresses have included the Gödel lecture for the Association for Symbolic Logic in Las Vegas (2002), the Rademacher lectures at the University of Pennsylvania (2002), and the Tarski lectures at the University of California, Berkeley (2007). Dr. Friedman has authored numerous publications on model theory, proof theory, intuitionism, recursion theory, set theory, complexity theory, and proof verification. Most notable has been his founding of the area of Reverse Mathematics in the Proceedings of the 1974 International Congress of Mathematicians and the 1976 issue of the Journal of Symbolic Logic; his ongoing work on the incompleteness phenomena in the 1998 issue of the Annals of Mathematics; and his forthcoming book Boolean Relation Theory and the Incompleteness Phenomena.

Gerald Gabrielse

Leverett Professor of Physics at Harvard University and Leader of the CERN ATRAP Collaboration that makes and studies cold antihydrogen atoms. Dr. Gabrielse's experiments probe our understanding of the most basic symmetries and systems. He pioneered antimatter techniques that make it possible to accumulate extremely cold antimatter particles, to precisely compare them to their matter counterparts, and to produce and study slowly- moving atoms made entirely of matter. He and his students have measured the fundamental electron magnetic moment, and the fine structure constant, at unprecedented accuracy. His team provided the most stringent test of CPT invariance with a baryon system. Dr. Gabrielse has chaired the Harvard physics department, was awarded Harvard's Levenson Prize for outstanding undergraduate teaching, and Harvard's Ledlie Prize for outstanding research. A fellow of the American Physical Society, he was awarded the Davisson-Germer Prize of the American Physical Society and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award.

Owen Gingerich, Ph.D.

Professor of astronomy and the history of science emeritus at Harvard University and a senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. He is co-author of two successive standard models for the solar atmosphere. Dr. Gingerich is a leading authority on the astronomers Nicolaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler. He has been vice president of the American Philosophical Society and has served as chairman of the U.S. National Committee of the International Astronomical Union, and a councilor of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), for which he helped organize its Historical Astronomy Division (HAD). Awards to Dr. Gingerich include the HAD’s Doggett Prize for his contribution to the history of astronomy (2000), the AAS Education Prize (2004), and the Harvard-Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa Prize for excellence in teaching (1984). He has written over 600 technical or educational articles and reviews. His most recent books are The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus (2004) and God's Universe (2006).

Mary Ann Glendon, J.D.

Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University. She received her B.A., J.D., and master of comparative law degrees from the University of Chicago. Professor Glendon taught at Boston College Law School from 1968 to 1986, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School, the Gregorian University, and the Pontifical University Regina Apostolorum in Rome. In 1994, she was appointed by Pope John Paul II to the newly-created Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and in 2004, he appointed her to its presidency, renewed for a second five-year term in 2009. In 1995, she headed the 22-member delegation of the Holy See to the Fourth U.N. Women's Conference in Beijing. Professor Glendon was awarded, in 2005, the National Humanities Medal by President Bush. She writes and teaches in the fields of human rights, comparative law, constitutional law, and legal theory. Among her recent books are A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the story of Mrs. Roosevelt's proudest achievement: the framing of the U.N.'s Declaration of Rights so basic that they belong to everyone on earth simply by virtue of being human, and Traditions in Turmoil, a collection of essays on law, culture and human rights that won the Capri-San Michele international prize in 2008.

Peter Gruber

President and principal of Globalvest Management Company, L.P. Mr. Gruber has been in the investment business for more than forty years. During his Wall Street years, he gained significant experience in all areas of the securities industry, including trading, research, underwriting and investment management. For a number of years, he was also actively engaged in corporate reorganizations. Since 1977, he has been investing globally for private clients and his own account, focusing on the securities market of Latin America and other emerging markets. Globalvest was founded to offer investment management and advisory services to qualified investors, pension funds and other institutions and for the last thirteen years has been headquartered in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. In 1993, Mr. Gruber and his wife Patricia established the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation (called the Peter Gruber Foundation at that time) and in 2000, the Foundation established an international prize program with an inaugural cosmology prize that was inspired by a Templeton Foundation meeting in 1999. The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation currently awards five prizes in the fields of cosmology, genetics, neuroscience, justice, and women's rights.

Patricia Gruber

President of the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, a non profit international prize-giving organization principally located in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Although they established the Foundation in 1993, the Grubers developed the prize program in the year 2000, when Mrs. Gruber became its full-time president. With a background in the humanities, she was formerly engaged in the private practice of psychotherapy until her move to the Virgin Islands in 1995. Working with her husband to realize their philanthropic vision, she oversees the daily activities of the Foundation and its five prizes in cosmology, genetics, neuroscience, justice and women's rights, and charitable activities in the Virgin Islands, which include the Laws of Life Essay Contests, inspired by the John Templeton Foundation. Active in the local community, Mrs. Gruber sits on a number of boards including the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center, the Center for Human Rights Advisory Council to the American Bar Association, the International Human Rights Council at the United Nations, and the Milton H. Erickson Institute of the Bay Area (founding member).

Susan Hackwood, Ph.D.

Executive director of the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) and Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Hackwood received a Ph.D. in Solid State Ionics in 1979 from DeMontfort University, UK. Before joining academia, she was Department Head of Device Robotics Technology Research at AT&T Bell Labs. In 1984 she joined the University of California, Santa Barbara as Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and was founder and Director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Robotic Systems in Microelectronics. In 1990, she became the founding Dean of the Bourns College of Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Hackwood's current research interests include science and technology policy, innovation mechanisms, distributed asynchronous signal processing and cellular robot systems. She has published over 140 technical publications and holds seven patents. A Fellow of the IEEE and the AAAS, Dr. Hackwood holds honorary degrees from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and DeMontfort University, UK. Dr. Hackwood has worked extensively with industry, academic and government partnerships to identify policy issues of importance to the country's citizens. With a strong interest in science and technology policy, Dr. Hackwood is currently involved with science and technology development in California, the U.S., Mexico, Ireland, Taiwan, Vietnam and Costa Rica. Her recent appointments include: Honorary Member of the Comision Asesora en Alta Tecnologia for Costa Rica and the California-Mexico Commission on Education, Science and Technology; AAAS Committee on Science Engineering and Public Policy (2003) and Chair (2007-9); member of the AAAS Engineering Delegate (2000-2) and Chair of the Section on Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering (2006-8); and member of the IEEE Spectrum Editorial Board. Dr. Hackwood also consults on new product development for several electronics companies.

Anne Harrington, Ph.D.

Chair and professor for the history of science at Harvard College. She specializes in the history of psychiatry, neuroscience, and the other mind sciences. She is also visiting professor for medical history at the London School of Economics, where she co-edits a new journal called Biosocieties. Dr. Harrington received her Ph.D. in the history of science from the University of Oxford, and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London, and the University of Freiburg in Germany. For six years, she co-directed Harvard's Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative and was also a consultant for the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mind-Body Interactions. Currently, she serves on the board of the Mind and Life Institute, an organization dedicated to cross-cultural dialogue between Buddhism and the sciences. She is the author of two books: Medicine, Mind and the Double Brain and Reenchanted Science. A third book, Stories Under the Skin: Mind-Body Medicine and its Histories, will be published by W.W. Norton. Dr. Harrington has also published many articles and produced a range of edited collections. She is currently working on a project that attempts to make historical and cultural sense of the rise of a genre of literature in our own time concerned with the "inner world" of brain disorder.

John F. Haught, Ph.D.

Senior Fellow, Science and Religion, Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University. He received his Ph.D. at Catholic University. Dr. Haught's area of specialization is systematic theology, with a particular interest in issues pertaining to science, cosmology, evolution, ecology, and religion. In 2002, he was the winner of the Owen Garrigan Award in Science and Religion, and in 2004, the Sophia Award for Theological Excellence. In 2005, he testified as an expert witness for the plaintiffs (Kitzmiller et al. vs Dover School Board) against the teaching of "intelligent design" in public school biology classes. He is the author of God and the New Atheism, Christianity and Science (2007), Is Nature Enough? (2006), Deeper Than Darwin (2003), Responses to 101 Questions on God and Evolution, God After Darwin, Science and Religion, and many other books. His works have been translated into numerous languages. Dr. Haught has also authored many articles and reviews. He lectures internationally on issues related to science and religion.

Harold G. Koenig, M.D.

Professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and associate professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Koenig is co-director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health also at Duke University Medical Center. He has published extensively in the fields of mental health, geriatrics, and religion, with more than 250 scientific peer-reviewed articles, 50 book chapters and 35 books.

Richard M. Lerner, Ph.D.

Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science and director of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development at Tufts University. Dr. Lerner received his Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the City University of New York in 1971. Previously, he served on the faculty of Michigan State University, Pennsylvania State University, and Boston College, where he was the Anita L. Brennan Professor of Education and director of the Center for Child, Family, and Community Partnerships. From 1994-1995, Dr. Lerner held the Tyner Eminent Scholar Chair in the Human Sciences at Florida State University. A 1980-81 fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, he is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science. Dr. Lerner has more than 500 scholarly publications, including 65 authored or edited books. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Research on Adolescence and of Applied Developmental Science, which he continues to edit. As illustrated by his 2004 book, Liberty: Thriving and Civic Engagement Among America's Youth, and his 2007 book, The Good Teen: Rescuing Adolescence from the Myth of the Storm and Stress Years, his work integrates the study of public policies and community-based programs with the promotion of positive youth development and youth contributions to civil society.

Theodore R. Malloch, Ph.D.

Chairman and CEO of The Roosevelt Group, a leading strategic management and thought leadership company. In 1994, he co-founded and has since directed the CEO Learning Partnership for PricewaterhouseCoopers L.L.P. A former senior fellow of The Aspen Institute, Dr. Malloch has also served as president of the World Economic Development Congress and on the executive board of the World Economic Forum. He held an ambassadoriallevel position in the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland (1989-1991); headed consulting at Wharton-Chase Econometrics; has worked in international capital markets at Salomon Brothers, Inc.; and served in senior policy positions at the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and in the U.S. State Department. He earned his Ph.D. in international political economy from the University of Toronto. He is the author of seven books, including Trade and Development Policy (1989), Spiritual Enterprise: Doing Virtuous Business (2008), Unleashing the Power of Perpetual Learning (co-authored with Donald M. Norris, 1998), The Global Century (2001) and The Renewal of American Culture and the Pursuit of Happiness (co-authored with Scott Massey, 2006). He serves on nine boards, including mutual funds, public companies, universities, and not-for-profits, and is chairman of the Spiritual Enterprise Institute, funded by the John Templeton Foundation.

Robert Mann, Ph.D.

Chair of the physics and astronomy department at the University of Waterloo. He did his undergraduate work at McMaster University, and obtained his master's and Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. He then spent two years as a National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, after which he joined the University of Toronto in 1984 as an NSERC university research fellow. He moved to the University of Waterloo in 1987, where he became a full professor in 1991. He served as the director of the Guelph Waterloo Physics Institute for two years before becoming chair in 2001. Dr. Mann's research interests are in gravitation, cosmology, and particle physics with particular interests in black hole thermodynamics quantum gravity, quantum information, chaotic phenomena, and the relationship between science and religion. He has published over 200 refereed articles in scientific journals, has given over 150 invited talks and made several media appearances. He has taught physics at all levels, from high school to graduate school, and has supervised over 40 graduate students in his career. An affiliate member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Dr. Mann has served on a variety of academic and scientific advisory boards, including the Ontario College of Graduate Studies, the founding board of the Institute for Quantum Computing, and the Ontario Photonics Consortium.

David G. Myers, Ph.D.

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Priyamvada Natarajan, Ph.D.

Professor in the department of astronomy with a joint appointment in the department of physics at Yale University, she also serves as the director of graduate studies for the department of astronomy. Dr. Natarajan is a cosmologist who received undergraduate degrees in physics and mathematics from M.I.T. She pursued graduate studies in theoretical astrophysics at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge in England, where she was a member of Trinity College and was elected to a Title A Research Fellowship from 1997 to 2003. Prior to joining the faculty at Yale, she was a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Toronto, Canada. Her areas of expertise include mapping dark matter and dark energy using the phenomenon of gravitational lensing; understanding the growth and evolution of black holes through cosmic time; and the formation of the first black holes in the Universe. Dr. Natarajan's other scholarly interests include the history and philosophy of science, technology, and public policy. She was enrolled in the MIT Program in Science, Technology & Society and the MIT Program in Technology and Public Policy from 1991 to 1994. Awarded the Radcliffe Fellowship in 2008-09, she was the Emeline Bigelow Conland Fellow and Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. Dr. Natarajan holds a Sophie and Tycho Brahe visiting professorship at the Dark Cosmology Center at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and was recently awarded a Guggenheim fellowship which she will take up during the 2010-2011 academic year.

Martin Nowak, Ph.D.

Professor of mathematics and biology at Harvard University and director of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. Dr. Nowak initiated the field of virus dynamics, which led to a quantitative understanding of HIV infection. He has made important contributions to evolutionary game theory, discovered indirect reciprocity as a fundamental mechanism for the evolution of other-regarding behavior in humans, and has unveiled the basic principles for the evolution of cooperation. In an effort to describe the evolution of human language, he designed a mathematical approach bringing together formal linguistics, learning theory, and evolutionary dynamics. His equations allow a precise understanding of the evolutionary processes that lead to human cancer. More recently, Dr. Nowak has designed a mathematical theory for the origin of life. Together with Dr. Sarah Coakley, he leads Harvard's program for the Evolution and Theology of Cooperation, which is funded by the John Templeton Foundation. He has published two books and more than 300 papers. Dr. Nowak is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the University of Vienna as well as the newly founded Institute of Science and Technology, Austria. He has won several prizes including the Weldon Memorial Prize and the David Starr Jordan Prize.

Timothy O'Connor, Ph.D.

Professor and chair of the department of philosophy at Indiana University and a member of its large and distinguished cognitive sciences program. He is an honors graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago where he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in philosophy. He went on to study at Cornell University on a Susan Linn Sage Fellowship and received a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1992. After post-doctoral research at the University of Notre Dame, Dr. O'Connor joined the Indiana philosophy faculty in 1993 and was named to his present position in 2005. In addition to research fellowships awarded by Indiana University, Dr. O'Connor has been the recipient of a year-long fellowship given by the Pew Scholars Program and spent a year at the University of St. Andrews as a Gifford Research Fellow. He has won several awards for teaching excellence. He formerly served on the executive committee of the Society of Christian Philosophers. Dr. O'Connor is a specialist in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion. He has lectured widely in the U.S., Europe, and Asia and is the author of fifty articles published in scholarly journals. He is the editor of Agents, Causes, and Events: Essays on Indeterminism and Free Will (2005), a co-editor of Philosophy of Mind: Contemporary Readings (2003), and a co-editor of two forthcoming interdisciplinary volumes: Companion to the Philosophy of Action and Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will. His book, Persons and Causes: The Metaphysics of Free Will, was published by Oxford University Press in 2000 and Theism and Ultimate Explanation: The Necessary Shape of Contingency was published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2008.

Stephen G. Post, Ph.D.

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Hilary Putnam, Ph.D.

Cogan University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, past president of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division), fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and corresponding fellow of the British Academy. Dr. Putnam has taught at Northwestern and Princeton universities, and was professor of the philosophy of science at MIT before joining the faculty at Harvard. He retired from teaching in June 2000. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. from UCLA, where he worked with Hans Reichenbach. Dr. Putnam has written extensively on the philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of natural science, philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind. Many of his papers have been collected in three volumes of Philosophical Papers, Realism with a Human Face, and Words and Life. He is also the author of a number of books, including most recently Renewing Philosophy and Pragmatism. Dr. Putnam has developed a position on the nature of truth and justification which he calls "internal realism," or more recently, "pragmatic realism," which has become a widely discussed alternative to both traditional metaphysical kinds of realism and post-modernist skepticism. In recent years, his interests have centered on the relations between scientific and nonscientific knowledge.

Jeffrey P. Schloss, Ph.D.

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Jane M. Siebels, CFA

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Howard A. Smith, Ph.D.

Senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA. His primary research is the origin of stars and stellar systems in our galaxy, whose nurseries are close enough that the processes can be studied, and in distant galaxies where massive bursts of star formation help to make them cosmic beacons. Dr. Smith has two undergraduate degrees from MIT, in physics and in humanities and science, and a Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley in the field of quantum electronics and astrophysics. After a postdoctoral fellowship in Tucson, AZ, he worked at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington before joining the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. At the museum, he was the chairman of the astronomy department and led its staff of scientists and educators doing basic research, education, and outreach. He played a key role in developing museum galleries, videos, and IMAX movies including the Academy Award nominee, Cosmic Voyage. Before moving to the Smithsonian in Cambridge, he spent two and a half years at NASA headquarters in charge of astrophysics grants in data analysis, research, and theory, and as the scientific liaison for several small space missions. Dr. Smith is also engaged in public education and outreach activities, writes a weekly popular science column for Smithsonian, and is active in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center's management and planning. He is an observant Jew, and the author of the book Let There Be Light: Modern Cosmology and Kabbalah, a New Conversation between Science and Religion.

Ervin Staub, Ph.D.

Professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, emeritus, and founding director of the Ph.D. concentration in The Psychology of Peace and the Prevention of Violence. He has studied helping behavior and altruism, including their development in children (with lectures and workshops for parents and teachers on how to raise caring and non-aggressive children), the passivity of bystanders, as well as the origins of genocide and mass killing, healing after mass violence, forgiveness and reconciliation. His books include the The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence (1989) and The Psychology of Good and Evil: Why Children, Adults, and Groups Help and Harm Others (2003). He is the past president of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence: Peace Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association, and of the International Society for Political Psychology. Dr. Staub is the recipient of several awards. Since 1998, he has been conducting projects in Rwanda on healing, forgiveness, reconciliation and the prevention of new violence, including public education programs on radio that have expanded to Burundi and the Congo.

Trinh Xuan Thuan, Ph.D.

Professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia. Dr. Thuan specializes in the study of dwarf galactic systems, the building blocks of the universe, and has written about 200 articles on the formation of elements in the "big bang" and galaxy formation and evolution. He obtained his bachelor's degree in physics at the California Institute of Technology (1970) and his Ph.D. in astrophysics at Princeton University (1974). He has lectured all over the world to present to the public the complex and subtle view of a scientist on the workings of nature and the profound changes in worldview brought about by modern scientific discoveries. Dr. Thuan has written several books for the general public. These include The Secret Melody, The Birth of the Universe, and Chaos and Harmony that have all met critical acclaim. In his latest book, The Ways of Light, he recounts the heroic history of how man has been able to enter the kingdom of light and decipher its secrets. It explores not only the scientific dimension of light, but also its artistic, aesthetic and spiritual aspects. It was awarded the 2007 Grand Prix Moron by the Academie Francaise (The French Academy).

Very Rev. Iain R. Torrance, D.Phil, CorrFRSE

President of Princeton Theological Seminary since 2004 and a trustee of the Center for Theological Inquiry. Prior to his appointment at Princeton, he was dean of the faculty of arts and divinity at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and a personal professor in patristics and Christian ethics. He served as moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 2003-4 and is a chaplain-in-ordinary to Her Majesty The Queen in Scotland. He is co-chair of the International Dialogue between the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the Orthodox Church. Educated at the Universities of Edinburgh (Philosophy), St. Andrews (New Testament Languages & Literature) and Oxford (D.Phil. in Syriac Patristics), he served first as a parish minister in the Shetland Islands, and subsequently taught at Queen's College, Birmingham, the University of Birmingham and the University of Aberdeen. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the University of St. Andrews, the University of Aberdeen, the Reformed Theological University in Debrecen and King College, Tennessee. He is committed to improving understanding between Christianity and Islam. He has edited the Scottish Journal of Theology since 1982 and is a corresponding fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His major publications are in the area of early Christian doctrine and contemporary Christian ethics. He was a judge for the Templeton Prize (1994-2000).

Charles H. Townes, Ph.D.

Professor in the graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley, and the 1964 Nobel Prize Recipient in Physics. Dr. Townes' research was fundamental to the development of the maser and laser that changed the modern world. He earned a bachelor's degree in physics and modern languages from Furman University, a master's degree in physics from Duke University, and Ph.D in physics from the California Institute of Technology. After work at the Bell Labs 1939-1948, he became professor of physics at Columbia University, and served as chairman of the department 1952-1954. He was provost and professor of physics at MIT, director of the Enrico Fermi International School of Physics, and university professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has chaired numerous defense and space program policy committees, including the advisory committee for the first lunar landing, and a U.S. Defense Department Committee on the MX missile system. He and Arthur Schawlow co-authored Microwave Spectroscopy. He also authored Making Waves and How the Laser Happened: Adventures of a Scientist. Dr. Townes has published many papers on science and theology, including: "Science, Values, and Beyond" in Synthesis of Science and Religion, "On Science, and What It May Suggest About Us" in Theological Education and "Why Are We Here: Where Are We Going?" in The International Community of Physics, Essays on Physics. Dr. Townes was awarded the 2005 Templeton Prize.

Ralph D. Veerman

President and CEO of Veerman & Associates, a philanthropic consulting company founded in 1988. Historically, he coached non-profit Christian executives in management, marketing, communications, and major gift fundraising. Assisting foundations, corporations, and individuals as a philanthropic advisor, Mr. Veerman enjoys seeing people come together for the common good and inspiring effective and generous donors. He is the executive director of the Heart of the City Foundation in Orlando and an organizational development advisor for the BioLogos Foundation, a project funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Mr. Veerman earned a bachelor's degree from Wheaton College, Illinois and master's degrees in both social work and criminal justice from the University of Illinois, Chicago. As a non-profit executive, Veerman served as National Director of YFC/Youth Guidance in Chicago, and also as Senior Vice President of Prison Fellowship USA in Washington, D.C. In 1984 he moved to Orlando, where he served as President of Ligonier Ministries for five years before forming his own consulting firm, Veerman & Associates. Mr. Veerman is Chairman of the Board of Advisors of FCS/Urban Ministries, Atlanta; Founder of the Greater Orlando Leadership Foundation/Lifework Leadership, Orlando; Trustee of the Riverside Foundation, Washington, D.C.; Trinity Forum Europe, London; Friends of Wycliffe Hall Oxford USA; Excelsis, Orlando and a recent Trustee of United Arts of Central Florida. He also serves in the College of Elders at First Presbyterian Church of Orlando.

Richard Watson, Esq.

Senior partner of a law firm in Cleveland, Ohio, in the fields of tax, business, financial, and philanthropic planning for family groups and their related business enterprises. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, he currently serves as a trustee of the Cleveland Museum of Art, as well as chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio. He is also a member of Harvard University's Committee on University Resources, the Deans Council of the Harvard Divinity School, and has served as a trustee of Case Western Reserve University.

Judith Watson

Graduate of Wellesley College, with master's degrees from Case Western Reserve University in social work administration and biomedical ethics. She practiced social work as a counselor and advocate for handicapped children and their parents. As a staff member of her church, she developed community awareness and outreach programs. Her volunteer activities include membership on the vestry, executive, and rector search committees of her parish. In addition, she is a member and past president of the board of Hanna Perkins Center, which provides lay child analyst training in the U.S. and abroad, school and therapy programs for children, and research and consultation in child development and education. Her work in bioethics focused on gerontology, especially late-life and end-of-life healthcare choices.

Fenggang Yang, Ph.D.

Director of the Center on Religion and Chinese Society (CRCS) and associate professor of sociology at Purdue University. He received his bachelor's degree in politics and education from Hebei Normal University (Shijiazhuang, China) in 1982, his master's in philosophy from Nankai University (Tianjin, China) in 1987, and his Ph.D. in sociology from The Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.) in 1997. His sociological research has focused on religious change in China and immigrant religions in the United States. He is the author of Chinese Christians in America: Conversion, Assimilation, and Adhesive Identities, the co-editor of Asian American Religions: The Making and Remaking of Borders and Boundaries, and the co-editor of State, Market, and Religions in Chinese Societies and Conversion to Christianity among the Chinese. His articles have been published in books and in the American Sociological Review, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Sociology of Religion, Amerasia Journal, Journal of Asian American Studies, the Sociological Quarterly, and Asia Policy, including one that won the 2002 Distinguished Article Award of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion ("Transformations in New Immigrant Religions and Their Global Implications") and one that won 2006 Distinguished Article Award of the American Sociological Association's Section of the Sociology of Religion ("The Red, Black, and Gray Markets of Religion in China"). His current research focuses on the political economy of religion in China, Christian ethics and market transition in China, faith and trust among business people in China, and Chinese Christian churches in the United States. He has given many invited lectures at universities and invited presentations at think tanks, and has been interviewed by the Washington Post, Seattle Times, Los Angeles Times, and some newspapers in Asia.

Donald G. York, Ph.D.

Horace B. Horton Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Enrico Fermi Institute and a professor in the College. After receiving his B.S. from MIT and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, he worked as a research astronomer at Princeton University, where he developed his primary interest, interstellar and intergalactic matter. Moving to Chicago in 1982, he expanded his interest to using observations of gas and dust between galaxies to study galaxy formation and cosmology. Pursuant to this interest, Dr. York became the founding director of the Apache Point Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, and of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Dr. York founded and operates a project to create a sustainable technology culture in 26 inner city Chicago schools, known as the Chicago PublicSchools/University of Chicago Internet Project (CUIP). He has published over 400 papers in refereed science journals.

Linda Zagzebski, Ph.D.

George Lynn Cross Research Professor of Philosophy and Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at the University of Oklahoma. She received her bachelor's degree from Stanford, her master's degree from University of California at Berkeley, and her Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles. She is past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers and past president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. Among her many endowed lectures, she has given the Romanell Lectures of Phi Beta Kappa and the McCarthy Lectures at the Gregorian University, and will be giving the Wilde Lectures in Natural Theology at Oxford in 2010. Her books include: The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge, Virtues of the Mind, Divine Motivation Theory, Philosophy of Religion: An Historical Introduction, and On Epistemology, as well as many edited books and articles in virtue epistemology, philosophy of religion, and virtue ethics.

Dean Zimmerman, Ph.D.

Professor of philosophy and co-chair for graduate studies at Rutgers University. Dr. Zimmerman previously taught at Syracuse University and the University of Notre Dame. He earned a bachelor's degree (with majors in philosophy, English, and French) from Mankato State University (now Minnesota State University-Mankato). At Brown University, he received a master's and Ph.D. in philosophy. Dr. Zimmerman is founding editor of Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, and has co-edited several other volumes: The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics, Metaphysics: The Big Questions, Persons: Human and Divine and Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics. His publications include over thirty articles in scholarly journals and books, as well as encyclopedia entries, introductions, and book reviews for journals and literary supplements. Dr. Zimmerman's current research includes an exploration of the metaphysics of human persons, emphasizing the difficulties confronting the more flatfootedly materialistic accounts of our nature; and the defense of an "A-theory" of time (according to which there is a "privileged present"), with special attention to God's relationship to the temporal order.

Gail Zimmerman, Ph.D.

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Advisors Whose Term Expired December 2009
North America

Francisco J. Ayala, Ph.D.
Stephen M. Barr, Ph.D.
Peter L. Benson, Ph.D.
Mark C. Berner, J.D.
Ramanath Cowsik, Ph.D.
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Ph.D.
David H. Gelernter, Ph.D.
Michael Guillen, Ph.D.
Hans Halvorson, Ph.D.
Anne Harrington, Ph.D.
Byron R. Johnson, Ph.D.
Michael L. Spezio,Ph.D.
Jennifer Wiseman, Ph.D.

 

Eurasia / Australia

Denis R. Alexander, Ph.D.

Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion and Fellow of St. Edmund's College, Cambridge. He was previously Chair of the Molecular Immunology Programme and Head of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development at The Babraham Institute, Cambridge. Dr. Alexander was an open scholar at Oxford University where he read biochemistry before undertaking a Ph.D. in neurochemistry at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. Dr. Alexander has published numerous articles and reviews, particularly in his research field of cancer and immunology, most recently in the New England Journal of Medicine (2008).  He is the editor of the journal, Science & Christian Belief, serves on the committee of Christians in Science, and lectures widely on the subject of science and faith. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Rebuilding the Matrix - Science and Faith in the 21st Century (Oxford: Lion, 2001) which provides a general overview of the science-religion debate. More recently he has edited Can We Know Anything? Science, Faith and Postmodernity (Leicester: Apollos, 2005), co-authored (with Bob White FRS) Beyond Belief – Science, Faith and Ethical Challenges (Oxford: Lion, 2004), and published Creation or Evolution – Do We Have to Choose? (Oxford: Monarch, 2008; 3rd printing March 2009).

Marco Bersanelli, Ph.D.

Professor of astrophysics at the University of Milan. Professor Bersanelli works in the field of cosmology, in particular on observations of the cosmic microwave background, the relic radiation from the early universe. He graduated from the University of Milan in 1986 and worked as a visiting scholar at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California. Dr. Bersanelli has participated in a number of experiments in cosmology, including two expeditions to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica. He is a member of the science team of the Planck Surveyor Space Mission, the European Space Agency project to study the early universe, and is president of EURESIS, a scientific and cultural association promoting interdisciplinary dialogue on frontier topics in science.

Alexei Bodrov, Ph.D.

Founder and Rector of the St. Andrew's Biblical Theological Institute in Moscow, Russia. St. Andrew's Institute, a state accredited educational charity, develops academic and publishing programs to promote theological education, science and religion dialogue and interconfessional and interfaith dialogue in Russia and CIS countries. St. Andrew's actively cooperates with the John Templeton Foundation and several related organizations in numerous academic and publishing programs. Dr. Bodrov was a chairperson of the public ceremony of the Templeton Prize at the Moscow Kremlin on May 17, 1999. He has been editor of the journal, Pages: Theology, Culture, Education; The World of the Bible magazine, and the book series, Science and Theology. Dr. Bodrov has been a member of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology since 1997 and serves as a committee member for the project "Science, Theology and the Ontological Quest" (Rome).

Allan Chapman, D.Phil.

Allan Chapman was born in Manchester, England. His first degree was from the University of Lancaster. Subsequently he undertook a history of science D.Phil. at Wadham College, Oxford. He is a historian by training and his special interests are astronomy and scientific biography. Chapman has been based at Oxford University for most of his career, as a member of the Faculty of History, based at Wadham College. He is an accomplished lecturer and public speaker (including as visiting professor at Gresham College in London). In January 1994, he delivered the Royal Society history of science Wilkins Lecture, on the subject of Edmund Halley. He is also a television broadcaster, notably Gods in the Sky on Channel 4, covering astronomical religion in early civilizations. Not averse to other forms of television, he also participated in the TV quiz University Challenge - The Professionals as part of the Royal Astronomical Society team. He is also the host of the History Channel's Great Scientists series. He has written many books including biographies such as England's Leonardo on Robert Hooke. Chapman is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. He is a founder, member, and president of the Society for the History of Astronomy (SHA). He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Central Lancashire in 2004.

Rev. Sarah Coakley, Ph.D.

Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge from 2007, Dr. Coakley was previously Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School (where she taught for 15 years). She has also held posts at Lancaster University, Oriel College, Oxford, and Princeton University. From 2005-8 she was the co-director, with Martin A. Nowak, of the "Evolution and the Theology of Cooperation" research group at Harvard, funded by the JTF. Coakley's and Nowak's book Evolution, Games and God: The Principle of Cooperation is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. Coakley was also co-chair of the JTF symposium "Spiritual Healing" whilst at Harvard, and the recipient of a JTF award for her course "Medicine and Religion" (co-taught with Professor Arthur Kleinman). In January 2010, she is chairing another JTF symposium (at Cambridge) on "Faith, Rationality and the Passions." Amongst Coakley's publications are: Powers and Submissions: Spirituality, Philosophy and Gender; an edited volume on comparative religion, Religion and the Body; Pain and Its Transformations (co-edited with Kay Kaufman Shelemay); and a four-volume systematic theology in progress. A systematic theologian and philosopher of religion, her teaching also includes topics in science and religion, feminist theory and theology, patristic thought, and applied theology. Dr. Coakley is an ordained priest of the Church of England and assists at Ely Cathedral.

Simon Conway Morris, Ph.D.

Professor of evolutionary palaeobiology at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Conway Morris is a leading expert in the early evolution of animals and the Cambrian "explosion," and has published across a wide range of paleontology. The recipient of various prizes, he was awarded the Walcott Medal from the National Academy of Sciences and the Lyell Medal by the Geological Society of London. Elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1990, Dr. Conway Morris is known as an effective communicator in science and gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 1996, televised by the BBC. More recently, he appeared in "What We Still Don't Know," a program led by Martin Reed, and is also involved with the forthcoming "Extraterrestrial". In addition to numerous scientific papers, he is the author of The Crucible of Creation and Life's Solution.

George F. R. Ellis, Ph.D., FRS

Visiting lecturer and professor in cosmology, physics, and astronomy across the globe, including South Africa, England, Germany, Canada, Italy and the United States. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics and theoretical physics from the St. John's College at Cambridge, is a fellow and past president of the Royal Society of South Africa, and was president of the International Society of Relativity and Gravitation. Dr. Ellis is co-author of On the Moral Nature of the Universe: Theology, Cosmology, and Ethics with Nancey Murphy, and has collaborated with Stephen Hawking on a number of publications including The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time. Dr. Ellis received the 2004 Templeton Prize.

David Ford

Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge and director of the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme (focusing on Judaism, Christianity and Islam). He first read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, and then studied Theology at Cambridge, Yale, and Tübingen. From 1976-1991, he taught in the University of Birmingham. Professor Ford co-founded the Scriptural Reasoning movement and is a trustee of the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton. He is an academic member of the Community of 100 Leaders for West-Islamic World Dialogue in the World Economic Forum. His academic work relates to a wide range of commitments in journals, academic projects, lecture series, the Society for the Study of Theology, the American Academy of Religion, universities in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia, inter-faith engagement in Britain and around the world, the Christian churches, the Clinton Global Initiative and the L'Arche Communities. Professor Ford has an honorary doctorate from the University of Birmingham and holds the Sternberg Foundation Gold Medallion for Inter- Faith Relations. He is a fellow of Selwyn College, is on the foundation of Trinity College, Cambridge, chairs the Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies (University of Cambridge) and is a trustee of the Golden Web Foundation. Professor Ford's books include: Christian Wisdom: Desiring God and Learning in Love, Shaping Theology: Engagements in a Religious and Secular World, Living in Praise—Worshipping and Knowing God with Daniel W. Hardy, The Shape of Living, Theology: A Very Short Introduction, Self and Salvation: Being Transformed, Meaning and Truth in 2 Corinthians with Frances M. Young, and Barth and God's Story. He has edited Musics of Belonging: The Poetry of Micheal O'Siadhail, The Promise of Scriptural Reasoning, The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology Since 1918 (3rd edition), Fields of Faith-Theology and Religious Studies for the Twenty-First Century, Reading Texts, Seeking Wisdom, and Essentials of Christian Community.

Peter Harrison, Ph.D.

Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion, director of the Ian Ramsey Centre, and fellow of Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford. Educated at the University of Queensland and Yale University, he holds bachelor's degrees in biology and in religious studies, and a Ph.D. in religious history. Before moving to Oxford, he was professor of history and philosophy at Bond University, Australia. His main area of research is early modern intellectual history, especially the history of philosophy, science and religion. He has a particular interest in the role played by religious factors in the emergence and persistence of science in the modern West. His books include The Bible, Protestantism and the Rise of Natural Science Cambridge, 1998) and The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science (Cambridge, 2007).

Sir Brian Heap, CBE, ScD, FRS

Honorary fellow of St. Edmund's College, Cambridge and Green College, Oxford, fellow of the Royal Society, special professor at the University of Nottingham, and chairman of the Cambridge Genetics Knowledge Park. He is editor of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Biological Sciences), and chairman of the Trustees of Academia Europaea. Sir Brian was formerly U.K. Representative on the NATO Science Committee, master of St. Edmund's College at the University of Cambridge, foreign secretary and vice president of the Royal Society, director of the Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research at Cambridge and Edinburgh, and president of the Institute of Biology, as well as a Templeton Prize judge. He has published widely on physiology, biotechnology, sustainable consumption, and science advice to government. He is a member of Christians in Science and of a Baptist church in Cambridge.

Xavier Le Pichon, Ph.D.

Honorary professor of geodynamics at the Collège de France. Dr. Le Pichon received his Ph.D. in geophysics at Strasbourg. A major contributor to Plate Tectonics Theory, he was the first to develop a global model based on quantitative analysis, which has become the basis for a better understanding of the distribution of earthquakes and the large-scale reconstruction of the configuration of continents and ocean basins in the past. Among his awards are the Maurice Ewing Medal, the Huntsman Prize, the Japan Prize, the Wollaston Medal, the Balzan Prize (2002), and the Wegener Medal (2003). He is a member of the French and American Academies of Science. Since 1976, Dr. Le Pichon is also a member of L'Arche, which brings together people that have learning disabilities with others who choose to live in the same community.

Alistar E. McGrath, D.Phil., D.D.

Professor of theology, ministry and education, and head of the Center for Theology, Religion and Culture at King's College, University of London. He studied at the Methodist College, Belfast, majoring in mathematics, physics, and chemistry. He was awarded a major scholarship to study chemistry at the University of Oxford, and was later awarded a D.Phil. for research in molecular biophysics. Dr. McGrath was elected university research lecturer in theology at the University of Oxford in 1993, and also served as research professor of theology at Regent College, Vancouver, from 1993-1999. In 1999, he was awarded a personal chair in theology at the University of Oxford, with the title of Professor of Historical Theology. He was awarded an Oxford doctorate of divinity in 2001 for his research on historical and systematic theology. His main research interests are presently in the field of science and religion, especially in exploring how natural theology can function as an interface between the natural sciences and Christian theology.

Argyris Nicolaidis, Ph.D.

Professor of theoretical physics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Dr. Nicolaidis conducted his undergraduate studies at the University of Thessaloniki and graduate studies at McGill University, Montreal. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Collège de France, Paris. His scientific work is centered on phenomenology of particle interactions, neutrino astrophysics, neutrino telescopes, cosmic rays, extra dimensions of space, strings and black hole dynamics, relational logic and foundations of physics. Dr. Nicolaidis is a member of the scientific council of NESTOR (Institute of Deep Sea Research and Technology and Astroparticle Neutrino Physics), and a member of the Committee for the Cubic Kilometer Neutrino Telescope. He received the Empirikion Prize for Natural Sciences (1988) and was a Fulbright Scholar (1995). He is a member of the editorial advisory board of the European Journal of Science and Theology and coordinator of activities on topics interfacing science-philosophy-religion.

Rev. John C. Polkinghorne, KBE, FRS

Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow (and former President) of Queens' College, Cambridge. He has published many papers on theoretical elementary physics in learned journals and two technical scientific books, The Analytic S-Matrix (CUP 1966, jointly with R.J. Eden, P.V. Landshoff, and D.I. Olive) and Models of High Energy Processes (CUP 1980). He has also published many books on science and religion, including The Faith of a Physicist (1994), Belief in God in an Age of Science (1998), The God of Hope and the End of the World (2002), Science and the Trinity (2004), Exploring Reality (2005), Quantum Physics and Theology (2007), and Theology in the Context of Science (2009). Dr. Polkinghorne was awarded the Templeton Prize in 2002, and also, in that year, became the founding president of the International Society for Science and Religion.

Eric Priest, Ph.D.

James Gregory Professor in the mathematics department at St. Andrews University. He was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1985), the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters (1994), and the Royal Society (2002). He has been awarded the James Arthur Prize (Harvard), the Hale Prize (American Astronomical Society), the Rosseland Lectureship (Oslo), and the Robinson Medal (Armagh). As an applied mathematician, his research interests involve constructing mathematical models for the subtle and complex ways in which magnetic fields interact with plasmas in the atmosphere of the Sun and in more exotic cosmic objects. In particular, he is trying to understand how the corona of the Sun is heated to several million degrees and how magnetic energy is converted into other forms in solar flares. In the area of science and religion, he is aware of the importance of trying in small ways to encourage dialogue and understanding between Islam and Christianity and recently spoke on science and culture to 850 schoolchildren in Alexandria, Egypt. He has also preached at St. Andrews on the tensions between Christianity and science and spoke on "Creativity in Science" at a conference on Creativity and the Imagination.

Elio Sindoni, Ph.D.

Full professor and director of general physics at Milano-Bicocca University and president of the Piero Caldirola International Centre for the Promotion of Science. Dr. Sindoni earned a bachelor's degree in physics in 1961 and a Ph.D. in atomic and nuclear physics in 1966 from the University of Milano. He was associate researcher at the Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory (USA) from 1969 to 1971 and obtained a professorship in plasma physics in 1972. Dr. Sindoni's research interests concern thermonuclear fusion, industrial applications of plasma physics, and environmental acoustics. He is a consultant to the Lombardia per l'Ambiente Foundation and to the Milano Town Council for urban acoustics pollution where he is in charge of the documentation center for airport acoustics noise. Dr. Sindoni has authored two textbooks on electromagnetism and published over 70 scientific papers, 30 of which are on popular science. He is also editor of the series Proceedings. Dr. Sindoni has organized over 80 workshops and international conferences on plasma physics, technology, astrophysics, cosmology and on relationships between science, philosophy and theology. In 2005, he was awarded a prize of the Italian Physical Society for contributions to the history of physics. In 2007, he was appointed as president of the CEUR Foundation (European Center of University Research). Dr. Sindoni is member of the Italian and American Physical Societies.

F. Russell Stannard, Ph.D.

Emeritus professor of physics at Open University. Dr. Stannard graduated from University College, London, where he took first-class honors in physics followed by a Ph.D. in cosmic ray physics in 1956. Dr. Stannard is also a fellow of the Institute of Physics and was formerly a visiting fellow at the Center for Theological Inquiry in Princeton. Queen Elizabeth II made him an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1998. His early research was in high-energy physics, and he was involved in the international collaboration responsible for the first direct sighting of the new property of matter designated "charm." He is a writer and broadcaster on the relationships between science, religion, psychology and philosophy. He teaches modern physics to school children through best-selling story books. His videos incorporating modern thinking into religious education have been adopted for use in 40% of all UK secondary schools. To date he has written 27 books, contributed more than 60 articles to scientific journals, and seven chapters to volumes of collected works.

Jean Staune, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Science in the MBA section of HEC (Paris). He has several degrees from French universities and Grandes Écoles in philosophy of science, human paleontology, computer science, mathematics, economy, and management. Dr. Staune is the founder and general secretary of the Interdisciplinary University of Paris (IUP) which has organized some of the most important meetings in science and religion in Europe. He was invited professor in Science and Religion at two pontifical universities (Gregorian and Regina Apostolorum) and at the University of Shandong (China). He has managed and co-managed important international programs of science and religion in many different religious frameworks (Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Islam). He is the co-director of the Local Society on Science and Religion based at the Benedictine Abbaye of Wisques. He was the first winner in the French-speaking world of the Science and Religion Course Program Award in 1997. His current research, which has implications not only for science and religion, but also for the theory of management, is based on the philosophical implications of contemporary discoveries in physics, astronomy, mathematics, biology, and neurology. He is the author of "Notre Existence a-t-elle un Sens?" a French best-seller which deals with these subjects. He has also edited two collected works ("Science and the Search for Meaning" and "La Science, l'Homme et le Monde"), which include contributions from 35 authors, 11 of whom are Nobel Prize winners.

Christian Tapp

Junior professor (Assistant Professor equivalent) for interdisciplinary questions of philosophy and theology, and head of the research group "Infinitas Dei" (Emmy Noether Program of the DFG) at the Faculty for Catholic Theology of Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany). He studied Catholic theology, philosophy, and mathematics in Bonn, Münster, Freiburg, and Munich. Having graduated from Münster University as a Diplom-Mathematiker (Master of Science in mathematics equivalent) and Lizentiat der Theologie (S.T.L. / Master of Divinity equivalent), he earned two doctoral degrees from Munich University, one in history of science (Sc.D.) and one in philosophy (D.Phil.). He started his career as a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at Göttingen Philosophical Institute, then spent a year as a postdoc at CMU Pittsburgh (Philosophy Department), followed by two years at the Institute for Christian Philosophy of Innsbruck University (Austria) prior to his present position. In 2009, he became a member of the Junges Kolleg of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

The Revd. Professor Keith Ward, FBA

Regius Professor of Divinity Emeritus, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Student of Christ Church, Oxford. He is a fellow of the British Academy, and formerly professor of the history and philosophy of religion at King's College, London University. He writes on philosophy, comparative religion and Christian issues. A Gifford lecturer, his main work is a five-volume comparative theology, each volume being titled 'Religion and. ..' His most recent book is The Big Questions in Science and Religion (2008).

Michael Welker, D. Th., D. Phil., D. Th. H.C.

Chair for systematic theology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Dr. Welker was a professor at the universities of Tübingen and Munster before he took his chair position in 1991. From 1996-2006, he has also been the director of the Internationales Wissenschaftsforum der Universitat Heidelberg, a center for international and interdisciplinary research. Since 2005, he is the director of the Research Center for International and Interdisciplinary Theology, Heidelberg. He is a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Science and a corresponding member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. Dr. Welker was a frequent guest professor in North America (McMaster University, Princeton Theological Seminary and Harvard Divinity School), and a senior consultant scholar at the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton. He is the author of about 250 articles in academic books and journals and the author or editor of 30 books.

John Wood, Ph.D.

Principal of the Faculty of Engineering at Imperical College, London. Dr. Wood was previously chief executive of the Council for the Central Laboratories of the Research Councils (CCLRC) from 2001 to 2007 on leave from Nottingham University. He graduated from Sheffield University in 1971 in metallurgy and undertook research at the University of Cambridge for his Ph.D. He remained at Cambridge as Goldsmith's Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College until 1978 when he took up a lectureship at the Open University. In 1989, he became Cripps Professor of Materials Engineering at Nottingham University and head of department and subsequently became dean of engineering in 1998. His research has been in the area of materials processing of non-equilibrium structures where he has over 240 publications and 14 patents. He was awarded a doctor of metallurgy in 1994 from Sheffield University and an honorary doctor of science from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca in Romania, receiving the Citizen of Honour of Cluj-Napoca for his "help in restructuring materials engineering education in Romania." During his research career, Dr. Wood has held a number of directorships and consultancies within industry and acted as an adviser on materials issues to governments. Dr. Wood was a director of M4 Technologies, The Industrial Trust, and Maney Publishing. He was appointed chair of the Office of Science & Technology Foresight Panel on Materials for 1997–2001. Dr. Wood is currently chair of the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures and chair of the International Steering Committee for the European X-Fray Free Electron Laser. He sits on the board of the Joint Information Services Committee, chairing their Support for Research Committee and their Scholarly Communications Group. He is on the advisory board of the British Library. He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and has won the Grunfeld and Ivor Jenkin's Prizes of the Institute of Materials and was awarded the prestigious William Johnson Gold Medal in 2001 for "lifetime achievements in materials processing." He was honored in the 2007 Queen's New Year list with a CBE.

Anton Zeilinger, Ph.D.

Professor of physics, University of Vienna, Austria. Dr. Zeilinger is also director at the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and honorary professor at the University of Science and Technology of China. He is interested in the experimental and philosophical foundations of quantum physics and their information science applications such as quantum teleportation, quantum communication and quantum computation. Among others, Dr. Zeilinger has held positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Technical University of Munich, and the Collège de France. His numerous honors include the Senior Humboldt Fellow Award, the German Order Pour le Mérite, a Fellowship of the American Physical Society, the prestigeous King Faisal Prize and the first Isaac Newton Medal of the British Institute of Physics.

Archbishop Józef M. Zycinski

Professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, where he is chair of the relationship between science and religion, Archbishop of Lublin, and grand chancellor of the Catholic University of Lublin. He has written more than 350 scholarly papers which have been published in Zygon, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, The Review of Metaphysics, Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, and Philosophy in Science, Cultures and Faith. Archbishop Zycinski is the author of 40 books in philosophy of science, relativistic cosmology, and the history of the relationship between natural sciences and Christian faith.

Advisors Whose Term Expired December 2009
Eurasia / Australia

John D. Barrow, Ph.D.
Andrew Briggs, Ph.D.
John Hedley Brooke, Ph.D.
Celia Deane-Drummond, Ph.D., Ph.D., FRSA.
Bruno Guiderdoni, Ph.D.
Sir Anthony Kenny, D.Phil., D.Litt.
Ian A. Walmsley, Ph.D.
Harvey Whitehouse, Ph.D.

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