Stephen M. Barr is Professor emeritus of physics at the University of Delaware. He received his doctorate in theoretical particle physics from Princeton University in 1978. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2011 for his contributions to grand unified theories, the theory of CP violation, and the cosmology of the early universe. He serves as President of the Society of Catholic Scientists.
Timothy E. Carone is a Lecturer in the College of Business and Economics of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater where he teaches machine learning, cybersecurity, and IT. His research is in artificial intelligence and its potential to shape future business capabilities. He spent over 25 years as an IT consultant. His PhD is in Physics from the University of Arizona where he did research into active galaxies and far UV observations of astronomical objects using the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. He has written a book on AI and Autonomous Systems and has written on AI and its impacts to Catholicism.
Sofia Carozza is a Marshall Scholar and PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, where she researches the impact of early adversity on brain development. She completed undergraduate studies in neuroscience and theology at the University of Notre Dame, and graduated as the valedictorian of the class of 2019.
Fr. Thomas Davenport, O.P. is a Dominican friar, physicist, and professor of philosophy at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome (the Angelicum). He has a PhD in theoretical particle physics from Stanford University, and a Licentiate in Philosophy from the Catholic University of America, focusing on the philosophy of science and natural philosophy. He is coauthor of Thomistic Evolution, a contributor to the "Aquinas 101 – Faith and Science" series, and on the Executive Board of SCS.
Paul W. Hruz is an academic pediatric endocrinologist and tenured physician scientist with faculty appointments in both Pediatrics and Cellular Biology and Physiology. He received his MD and PhD degrees from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He completed residency training in Pediatrics at the University of Washington in Seattle and fellowship training in pediatric endocrinology at Washington University in St Louis. Dr. Hruz has over 25 years of clinical experience in caring for children with disorders of sexual development. He has authored over 60 peer-reviewed manuscripts, scientific reviews and book chapters.
Luc Jaeger is Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of the University of California at Santa Barbara. He received a PhD in Structural Biochemistry and Biophysics from the University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg in 1993. After postdoctoral studies at the Scripps Research Institute, he worked as a CNRS research scientist at the "Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire" in Strasbourg before joining UC Santa Barbara, where his research focuses on RNA folding and evolution; nucleic acid-based bionanotechnology and biomaterials; emergence of complexity in living systems.
John Paul Libanati is a rising senior at Vanderbilt University studying Biomedical Engineering on the pre-medical track with a minor in Philosophy. His Benedictine high school education first instilled in him a profound love for both the sciences and the Faith. Although he intends on pursuing a future in the medical field, he always seeks to discover new ways to wed his faith with the science he practices. He would like to thank Dr. Lenn Goodman, Mr. Micheal Staron, Mr. Robert Alspaugh, and Dr. Andrew Sucre for guiding his interest in Philosophy.
Samantha Mattheiss is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Felician University. Both her teaching and research are inspired by past experiences such as serving as a Salesian Lay Missionary in Bolivia and living in ecclesial communities in Philadelphia, PA and Newark, NJ. She holds a doctorate in psychology with a concentration in neuroscience from Rutgers University - Newark.
Kieran McNulty is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. He received his PhD from the City University of New York. His principal interests are in the evolution of apes and humans, pursued both through laboratory research on the morphogenesis of skeletal anatomy and through paleontological fieldwork in eastern Africa. Kieran conceived of and directs the NSF-funded REACHE project, a collaborative network that coordinates field research at all of the Early Miocene fossil ape sites in eastern Africa, working in close association with the National Museum of Kenya and Uganda National Museum. Kieran has a long commitment to building educational, scientific, and societal infrastructure both in the U.S. and in Kenya.
Maria Elena Monzani is a Lead Scientist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), where she leads the software computing effort for the LZ Dark Matter Experiment and the Science Operations Team for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope She received her doctorate from the University of Milano and University of Paris 7, her dissertation being on the Borexino experiment that measured neutrinos produced by the sun Her research field is astroparticle physics, which focuses on topics at the intersection between particle physics and astrophysics/cosmology.
Yoav Vaknin is a doctoral student in the Department of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University and in the Palaeomagnetic Lab of Prof. Ron Shaar at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has participated in excavations at Tel Dor, Jerusalem, Kiryat Ya'arim and Timna. His doctoral research, which was done in collaboration with a team of archaeologists, physicists, and historians, used palaeomagnetic methods to date important biblical sites and is published in the Proceeding of the (U.S.) National Academy of Sciences and was widely reported on in the scientific and popular press. He is a Guest Lecturer at SCS2023.
Reinhard Vehring is a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Alberta. In industry, he worked on research and development of several respiratory therapeutics, including inhalable insulin and a nasally administered influenza vaccine, FluMist®. Dr. Vehring was the lead inventor for the cosuspension formulation technology which has been used in three registered products by Astra Zeneca. At the University of Alberta, his group collaborates with non-profit organizations to develop vaccines and bacteriophages for Global Health applications. He serves as president of the Edmonton Chapter of the Society of Catholic Scientists.