Chris Southgate is a trained research biochemist and a Senior Lecturer of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter, where he also works as a Research Fellow in Theology.

His main fields of study are the science-religion debate, ecotheology and environmental ethics. Southgate’s research and teaching won him a Templeton Award, and he has since served as a Coordinating Editor of the Science and Religion Textbook Project for the Templeton Foundation. He is the principal author and coordinating editor of God, Humanity and the Cosmos, a much-praised textbook on the science-religion debate, in addition to several anthologies of poems.

Southgate is also Acting Principal and Dean of Studies of the South-West Ministry Training Course, an ecumenical scheme to train clergy in Southwest England.

Southgate earned his PhD in Biochemistry from Cambridge University. His other academic achievements include a BA Hons. in Natural Sciences, a certificate of Theology, and a General Ministry Certificate of the Church of England. Southgate was also the keynote speaker at the International Congress on Science and Religion in Tehran.