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Dr. Jörg Matthias Determann
Jörg Matthias Determann is Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. He also serves as an Associate Editor of the Review of Middle East Studies. Previously, Determann worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Zentrum Moderner Orient and the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies in Germany. He holds a doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and two master’s degrees from the University of Vienna. He is the author of four books including Researching Biology and Evolution in the Gulf States and Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life.
Dr. Jamie Jensen
Dr. Jamie Jensen is a Discipline-based Educational Researcher (DBER) and Professor of Biology at Brigham Young University. She received a Bachelor’s Degree in Animal Science from Brigham Young University in 1999, a Master’s Degree in Biology, with an emphasis in Developmental Biology and Molecular Evolution, from Brigham Young University in 2003, and a Doctoral Degree in Biology, with an emphasis in Science Education, from Arizona State University in 2008. From 2008 to 2010, she ran educational research and taught at Chandler-Gilbert Community College as a post-doctoral experience. She joined the faculty as a DBER in the Biology Department at Brigham Young University in 2010. Her research foci include (1) the reconciliation of science and religion among religious students with specific focus on evolution education, (2) the creation of faculty development programs to teach evidence-based instructional practices to STEM faculty, and (3) the development and assessment of undergraduate biology curricula that employ evidenced-based pedagogical strategies to increase student scientific reasoning skills and deep conceptual understanding. She teaches both majors and non-majors biology as well as advanced pedagogy classes as part of the Graduate Teaching Fellows Program at Brigham Young University. She is also a member of the Broader Social Impacts Committee for the Human Origins Initiative at the Smithsonian where she joins other religious scientists in helping the American public feel more comfortable with evolution.
Dr. Mehmet Somel
Mehmet Somel did a biology undergrad at the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, and a biotechnology MSc at the same university. He worked at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig for his Ph.D., and as postdoctoral fellow in PICB, Shanghai, and in UC Berkeley. Since 2013 he is working as faculty member at METU Biological Sciences. His research interests include population and evolutionary genetics, including archaeogenomics and human evolution, and the biology of aging. He works as part of the CompEvo group (http://compevo.bio.metu.edu.tr/) and the METU/Hacettepe Ancient DNA Team. He has also been active in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Society of Turkey (https://www.ekoevo.org/) and the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB).
Dr. Rana Dajani
Rana Dajani Ph.D. molecular cell biology from U of Iowa, currently Cmalakova Fellow at the Jepson school of Leadership at the University of Richmond, Harvard Radcliff fellow, a Fulbrighter, Fulbright Foreign Student Program, Jordan to the United States, 2000; Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program, Jordan to the United States, 2012. Eisenhower fellow, Professor, former center of studies director, Hashemite University, Jordan, Yale and Cambridge visiting professor. World expert on genetics of Circassian and Chechan populations in Jordan. Established stem cell research ethics law in Jordan. Advocate for biological evolution and Islam, speaker at McGill University and MIT. Jordan team leader in studying refugee youth with Yale University and the epigenetics of trauma across generations. Higher education reform expert, member UN women Jordan advisory council. Writer in Science and Nature, Established a women mentor network, received Partnerships for enhanced engagement in research (PEER) award 2014. Organized the first gender summit for the Arab world 2017. Most influential women scientists in Islamic World, 12 among 100 most influential Arab women 2015, women in science hall of fame 2015, King Hussein Cancer Institute for cancer and biotechnology award 2009 and 2016 Global Change maker Award for celebrating 70 years of the Fulbright Programme. President of the Society for the Advancement of Science, Technology and Innovation in the Arab World.
Dr. Mohammed Ghaly
Mohammed Ghaly is professor of Islam and Biomedical Ethics at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics (CILE) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar. He has a B.A. in Islamic Studies from Al-Azhar University (Egypt) and an M.A. and PhD in the same specialization from Leiden University (the Netherlands). During the period 2007-2013, Ghaly was a faculty member at Leiden University.
Islamic Ethics and its intersection with biomedical sciences is Ghaly’s main research interest. Ghaly is the author of Islam and Disability: Perspectives in Theology and Jurisprudence (Routledge, 2010), and the editor of the volumes Islamic Perspectives on the Principles of Biomedical Ethics (Imperial College & World Scientific, 2016), Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question (Brill, 2019) and End-of-Life Care, Dying and Death in the Islamic Moral Tradition (Brill, 2022). He is the editor of a number of thematic issues, the single author of more than forty peer-reviewed publications, and an editorial board member of a number of academic journals. He is also the Lead Principal Investigator (LPI) and research consultant on a number of funded research projects related to the field of Islamic Ethics.
Ghaly is the founding editor-in-chief of the Scopus-indexed Journal of Islamic Ethics (published by Brill). In September 2019, he became the founding Program Coordinator of the newly established M.A. in Applied Islamic Ethics at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. His publications can be accessed via https://cilecenter.academia.edu/MohammedGhaly
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