Dr Pete Jordan

Grant and Research Consultant and Research Fellow

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

Pete holds a PhD in physiology, biophysics, and systems biology from Cornell University, and a PhD in religious studies from the University of Queensland. His research focuses on how Christians make sense of and relate to cultural practices and pursuits like science, from the early modern period to the present. He is the author of Naturalism in the Christian Imagination: Providence and Causality in Early Modern England(Cambridge University Press), and has published articles in The Journal of Religion, Zygon, Theology and Science, Science and Christian Belief, and elsewhere.

Pete has been Research Fellow in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. He has also been Research Coordinator in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford, where he served as an external Program Adviser to the Templeton World Charity Foundation.

Pete is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the International Society for Science and Religion.