The Rev'd Professor Robert Gilbert

Professor of Biophysics, Nuffield Department of Medicine; Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry, Magdalen College
University of Oxford

Oxford, United Kingdom

Biography

After a BSc in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Durham, Robert Gilbert researched for a PhD at Leicester University in the Departments of Biochemistry and Microbiology and Immunology. He came to Oxford as a post-doc in the Division of Structural Biology and in 2002 became Tutor in Biochemistry at Magdalen. He has since held in addition a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2004-2012) and is now Professor of Biophysics in the Nuffield Department of Medicine and Director of the University’s Medical Sciences Graduate School.

His book “Science and the Truthfulness of Beauty” is published by Routledge.

Honoraria Titles

Major Prizes

Religion, Philosophy & History Interests

Christianity-Catholicism, Christianity-Protestantism, Philosophy of Religion, Theology

Science & Technology Interests

Biology, Biotechnology, Evolution, Genetics, Medicine & Health

Website

https://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/member-of-staff/robert-gilbert/

Publications

Science and the Truthfulness of Beauty

Routledge 2017