 William StoegerWilliam 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.
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