Denis Alexander

Dr. Denis Alexander is the Founding Director (Emeritus) of The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, Cambridge, where he is Emeritus Fellow of St. Edmund’s College. He is a past chair of the Molecular Immunology Programme and Head of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development at The Babraham Institute, Cambridge. He also previously served at the Imperial Cancer Research Laboratories in London (now Cancer Research UK) and spent fifteen years developing university departments and laboratories overseas, latterly as Associate Professor of Biochemistry in the Medical Faculty of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, where he helped to establish the National Unit of Human Genetics. From 1992 to 2013 he was editor of the journal Science and Christian Belief; he also served as a member of the executive committee of the International Society for Science and Religion. 

Dr. Alexander delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of St Andrews in 2012. These lectures were published as Genes, Determinism and God (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Dr. Alexander’s latest books are Is There Purpose in Biology? (Lion, 2018), Are We Slaves to Our Genes? (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and Coming to Faith Through Dawkins (co-edited with Alister McGrath; Kregel, 2023).