William Stoeger

William R. Stoeger, SJ is a staff scientist for the Vatican Observatory Research Group in Tucson, specializing in theoretical cosmology, high-energy astrophysics, and interdisciplinary studies relating to science, philosophy and theology. His research involves the physics of accretion onto black holes, torsion and bi-metric theories of gravity, the harmonic map structures in gravitational theories. More recently, he has been concentrating on building bridges between theory and cosmologically relevant astronomical observations, and he continues to pursue research on the physics of the central engine in active galactic nuclei and quasars. Dr. Stoeger has taught at the University of Arizona, at the University of San Francisco, and at Summer Schools of the Vatican Observatory. He chairs the Board of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) and is the Secretary of the Vatican Observatory Foundation. He is an active participant in the Vatican Observatory/CTNS conferences on "God's Action in the World: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action.”