Dr Pete Jordan

Director of Grants and Research

BEng (QUT), PhD (Cornell), MDiv (Duke), PhD (Queensland)

Pete is Director of Grants and Research at SCIO. He is currently the co-director of the John Templeton Foundation-sponsored Supporting Structures project. He is also a Research Fellow of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at the Faculty of Theology and Religion in the University of Oxford. In that role he is the primary researcher on the Intellectual World of John Templeton project, sponsored by the Templeton World Charity Foundation.

Before joining SCIO Pete was a Research Coordinator in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford, in which role he served as an external Program Adviser to the Templeton World Charity Foundation. He helped applicants to develop grant proposals for funding by the Foundation, and supported various active funding initiatives.

Pete holds PhDs in physiology, biophysics, and systems biology from Cornell University, and in religious studies from the University of Queensland. His research focuses on the relations between science and religion from the early modern period to the present. He is a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion.