Denis Alexander

Dr Denis Alexander is the director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at St Edmund's College, Cambridge, and is a popular writer and speaker on science and faith. His latest book is called Creation or Evolution: Do We Have to Choose? He is editor of the journal Science & Christian Belief and is on the National Committee of Christians in Science. Until recently, Denis was the head of an immunology (the study of the immune system) lab at The Babraham Institute, Cambridge. He spent the first fifteen years of his working life developing science teaching and research in universities in Turkey and Lebanon, and was evacuated with his family from Beirut during the civil war in 1986. Denis is married to Tina and they have three children who have also inherited the travelling bug. He spends as much of his spare time as possible hiking in sunny countries.