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STARS Board of Advisors
Francisco J. Ayala

Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA


John D. Barrow

FRS Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Fellow of Clare Hall, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK


Philip Clayton

Ingraham Professor of Theology at Claremont School of Theology and Professor of Philosophy and of Religion at Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, USA


George Coyne

Director of the Vatican Observatory and Adjunct Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA


Paul Davies

College Professor and Director of Beyond: Institute for Fundamental Concepts in Science, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA


George F.R. Ellis

Professor of Applied Mathematics, Distinguished Professor of Complex Systems, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa


Mehdi Golshani

Distinguished Professor of Physics at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran


Chris Isham

Professor of Theoretical Physics at The Blankett Laboratory, Imperial College, London, UK


Nancey Murphy

Professor of Christian Philosophy, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA, USA


John Polkinghorne

Former Professor of Mathematical Physics and President of Queens' College, Cambridge, UK


Robert Pollack

Professor of Biological Sciences and Director, Center for the Study of Science and Religion Columbia University, New York, NY, USA


V. V. Raman

Emeritus Professor of Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA


Mark A. Richards

Dean of Physical Sciences and Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA


Pauline Rudd

University Reader in Glycobiology, Glycobiology Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK


William Stoeger, S.J

Staff Scientist, Vatican Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA


Trinh Xuan Thuan

Professor of Astronomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA


Charles Townes

Nobel Laureate and Professor of Physics Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, CA , USA


STARS Consultants
Munawar Anees

President, Knowledge Management Systems (KnowSys), Tucson, AZ, USA


John Hedley Brooke

Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion within the Faculty of Theology at Oxford, and Director of the Ian Ramsey Center, Oxford University, Oxford, UK


William Grassie

Founder and Executive Director, Metanexus Institute, Philadelphia, PA, USA


Antje Jackelen

Associate professor of systematic theology/religion and science at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, and Director of the Zygon Center for Religion and Science, Chicago, IL, USA


Jean Staune

General Secretary, Université interdisciplinaire de Paris, Paris, France



STARS Personnel

Principal Investigator: Dr. Robert John Russell


Program Director: Dr. Dennis W. Hair


Support Staff

Program Administrator: Nathan Hallanger

Conference Coordinator: Bonnie Johnston

Program Assistant: Braden Molhoek