President
Prof Edward J. Larson is the Russell Professor of History and Talmadge Professor of Law at the University of Georgia and recipient of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in History. He lectures on history, law, science, and bio-ethics for academic, professional, and public audiences.
Executive Committee
Dr Jeffrey Schloss is Distinguished Professor of Biology and T.B. Walker Chair of Natural & Behavioral Sciences at Westmont College, where he directs the Center for Faith, Ethics and Life Sciences. His research addresses evolutionary accounts of altruism, morality, and religious cognition.
Dr Shoaib Ahmed Malik is Assistant Professor at Zayed University in Dubai. Trained in chemical engineering and in the philosophy of science and religion, his work bridges Islamic thought with contemporary science.
Dr Noah Efron chairs the Graduate Program in Science, Technology and Society at Bar Ilan University in Israel. He is President of the Israeli Society for the History and Philosophy of Science and a member of the ISSR Executive Committee.
Dr Ignacio Silva is Associate Professor of Theology and Science at the Philosophy Institute, Universidad Austral, and an Associate Member of the Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at the University of Oxford. His research concerns divine providence and indeterminism in nature.
Catherine (Kate) Rigby is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Cologne. Her work connects literature, religion, and environmental thought.
Dr Bethany Sollereder is Associate Professor in Science and Religion at the University of Oxford and Wills Tutor in Theology at Harris Manchester College. She specialises in theology, evolution, and the problem of suffering, including theological aspects of climate change.
Dr Josh Reeves is Director of the Samford Center for Science and Religion at Samford University. A graduate of Cambridge and Boston University, he writes on methodology, rationality, and theology in the science-and-religion field.
Nancy Howell is Professor of Theology and Philosophy of Religion at Saint Paul School of Theology, and Oubri A. Poppele Professor of Health and Welfare Ministries.
Dr Russell Re Manning is Reader in Philosophy, Religion, and Ethics at Bath Spa University. His research engages the intellectual history of natural theology, theologies of culture, philosophy of religion, and topics in science and religion.
Prof Philip Clayton is Ingraham Professor of Theology at Claremont School of Theology and Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Claremont Graduate University. His primary research interest concerns the ethical, social and metaphysical issues that arise at the intersection of contemporary science and religion.
Professor Mikael Stenmark is professor in the philosophy of religion at the Department of Theology, Uppsala University, Sweden. He has published on rationality in science and religion, scientism, environmental ethics, and science-religion issues.
Staff
Anthony K Nairn holds a Ph.D. from York University in Toronto (supervisor Prof Bernard V Lightman). His research examines representations of science in popular culture that use theological and religious-like narrative motifs.
Prof Fraser Watts is a clinical and research psychologist and a Past President of the British Psychological Society. Formerly Reader in Theology and Science at the University of Cambridge, he is Visiting Professor of Psychology of Religion at the University of Lincoln.
Past Presidents
Prof Niels Henrik Gregersen is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Copenhagen. His work focuses on constructive Christian theology, the theology of creation, and the dialogue between theology and the sciences of complexity.
Revd Professor Michael J Reiss is Professor of Science Education at University College London and a Priest in the Church of England. He is also Vice President and Honorary Fellow of the British Science Association.
Sir Brian Heap CBE ScD FRS is a biological scientist and research associate at the Faraday Institute, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, and at the Centre for Development Studies, University of Cambridge.
Professor George F. R. Ellis, FRAS, is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town. He has held visiting professorships worldwide and is a former President of ISSR.
Prof John Hedley Brooke taught at Lancaster University from 1969 to 1999 and is a member of the International Academy of the History of Science. In 1995 he delivered the Gifford Lectures at Glasgow University.
Revd Dr John Polkinghorne, KBE FRS, worked in theoretical elementary particle physics for 25 years and was Professor of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University from 1968 to 1979. He later became a leading figure in science and religion.