The Speakers
John Mather
John Cromwell Mather is an astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE) with George Smoot.
In 2007, Time magazine listed Mather among the 100 Most Influential People in The World. In October 2012, he was listed again by Time magazine in a special issue on New Space Discoveries as one of the 25 most influential people in space.
William Daniel Phillips
Phillips is a Professor of Physics of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences.
In 1997 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and Steven Chu for his contributions to laser cooling, a technique to slow the movement of gaseous atoms in order to better study them, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and especially for his invention of the Zeeman slower.
Jennifer Wiseman
Jennifer J. Wiseman is an astronomer and Senior Project Scientist on the Hubble Space Telescope.
Wiseman is also interested in science policy and public science outreach and engagement. She has served as a congressional science fellow of the American Physical Society, an elected councilor of the American Astronomical Society and a public dialogue leader for the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Robert Kaita
Dr. Robert Kaita is a physicist in the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) at Princeton University.
He has not only made outstanding contributions to the advancement of his disciplinary specialty through his research, he has often shared his perspectives on the integrating of a living faith and disciplinary excellence with groups on various campuses. He will be sharing some reflections on this journey of faith in the world of academia at the conference.
Eben Alexander
Eben Alexander III is an American neurosurgeon and author. Alexander left Harvard in 2001, citing frustration with "medical politics". In 2006, he relocated to Lynchburg, Virginia, where he conducted research on less invasive brain surgery techniques using focused X-rays and digital scanners. In 2008, he went under a medically-induced coma while being treated for meningitis. His book Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife describes his near-death experience while in the coma. He asserts that the coma resulted in brain death, that consciousness is not only a product of the brain and that it can go on to an afterlife
Daniel Kuebler
Daniel Kuebler is a Professor of Biology at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, where he teaches courses on evolution, cell physiology, bioethics, and science and faith. He is also the Vice-President of the Society of Catholic Scientists (SCS), an international society with over 2000 members. He is the co-author of The Evolution Controversy: A Survey of Competing Theories and the author of Darwin and Doctrine: The Compatibility of Evolution and Catholicism. He has written numerous academic and popular articles on issues related to science, religion, and bioethics. He is the host of The Catholic Scientist podcast for the SCS and is also the host for the Purposeful Lab podcast. His scientific research involves studying the characteristics and variability of adult stem cells found in human bone marrow and adipose tissue.
Steve Barr
Stephen Matthew Barr is a Physicist who is a Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Delaware. A member of its Bartol Research Institute, Barr does research in theoretical particle physics and cosmology. In 2011, he was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, the citation reading "for original contributions to grand unified theories, CP violation, and baryogenesis.
He is also a practicing Catholic and writes and lectures frequently on the relation of science and religion
Andrew Bocarsly
Andrew Bruce Bocarsly is currently a professor at Princeton University. His primary research interests lie in physical inorganic chemistry. He conducts research in electrochemistry, photochemistry, solids state chemistry, and fuel cells, and is known for his work on alternate energy solutions involving processes and materials for photo-reduction and electro-reduction
Michel-Yves Bolloré
Michel-Yves Bolloré is co-authors of « God, The Science, The Evidence » with Olivier Bonnassies. He is passionate about science. They spent three years gathering information from researchers and scientists in order to offer a collection of evidence supporting the existence of a creator God.
The book is a best-seller in Europe, where it and has sold more than 425,000 copies. The book and accompanying documentary God and Science will be available in English for the first time in October 2025.
Olivier Bonnassies
Olivier Bonnassies is co-authors of book « God, The Science, The Evidence » with Michel Yves Bolloré , he is passionate about science. They spent three years gathering information from researchers and scientists in order to offer a collection of evidence supporting the existence of a creator God.
The book is a best-seller in Europe, where it and has sold more than 425,000 copies. The book and accompanying documentary God and Science will be available in English for the first time in October 2025.
Hans Halvorson
Hans Halvorson is the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University where he specializes in the philosophy of physics, logic, and the foundations of mathematics.
Lara Buchak
Lara Buchak is a Professor in the Philosophy Department at Princeton University. Her research interests include decision theory, social choice theory, epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of religion.
Jean Staune
Jean Staune is a French philosopher of science and futurist, he has organized major conferences in more than fifteen countries, with international organizations such as UNESCO, on themes related to science, religion and culture. Secretary General of the Interdisciplinary University of Paris, he currently directs the "Sciences and the Quest for Meaning" Center at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco. In the USA, he collaborated with the John Templeton Foundation, where he was a member of the Board of Advisors for nine years..
Marcus Gibson
Christophe-Marcus Gibson is the Director of the Princeton Initiative in Catholic Thought, a new academic program that aims to sponsor and organize a wide variety of high-caliber courses, lectures, seminars, and other offerings relating to Catholic thought.
His current research focuses on what Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas can still contribute to our understanding of the role passions play in human life at its best. He has taught philosophy courses at Princeton and Rutgers, and he teachs a freshman seminar at Princeton on happiness and human nature in the Catholic intellectual tradition.