Dr Michael Burdett is Associate Professor of Christian Theology at the University of Nottingham. He completed his DPhil in Theology at the University of Oxford, and worked in the aerospace and robotics industries for several years working with a firm that had contracts with NASA and JPL. He holds degrees in engineering, physics, and theology and has been given academic and professional awards in each field. He has been an advisor for the Church of England's Ethical Investment Advisory Group on AI and Big Tech and has helped lead grant projects totalling over ~£4 million on topics related to Christian theology, science and technology. He is a series editor for the Routledge Science and Religion series and his major works include Technology and the Rise of Transhumanism: Beyond Genetic Engineering (Grove, 2014), Eschatology and the Technological Future (Routledge, 2015) and Finding Ourselves After Darwin: Conversations about the Image of God, Original Sin, and the Problem of Evil (Baker Academic, 2018).
