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Prof. Dr Paul van Geest (Den Haag, the Netherlands, 1964) is professor in Patristics and Augustinian Studies at Tilburg University and The Free University of Amsterdam. He is also the director of the Centre For Patristic Research. The CPR is an initiative of the Theological Faculty of The Free University of Amsterdam, and the Faculty of Catholic Theology at Tilburg University which are its joint owners. The CPR serves the academic aim of doing research into the development of Christian thinking about man, society, creation, and the triune God in their interconnection, during the first centuries of the Christian era. Its co-workers investigate the works of the Church Fathers, the Christian authors from the first centuries who thought through the Scriptures and the early creeds, and thus tried to find answers to questions regarding the meaning of life as well as concrete needs in their own time. The CPR also serves an ecumenical aim. In the Centre, Roman Catholic and Protestant theologians (23 members, among them 5 post-doctoral –fellows, 8 PhD students) co-operate in the area of patristics with an eye to the quality of believing and living of Christians, here and now, in the community of the church in a pluralistic society. This involves academic research of high quality, the results of which will be published in monographs, in internationally renowned journals, in volumes (e.g., the contributions to international conferences), and in encyclopaedias.
Prof. Van Geest has supervised 8 PhD students on Augustine and 14 MA research students on a wide variety of topics including Augustine, Arius, Pelagius, mystagogy,  the monastic rules, theology of grace, with special emphasis on independent critical thinking, stringent methodology and interdisciplinarity. He has also conducted master-classes for postgraduates at the Universities of Amsterdam, Utrecht, Leuven, Oxford (Augustine).
Teaching
Apart from contributing to shared courses on Theology in Utrecht, Nijmegen, Amsterdam, Rome, he has specialized in teaching Augustine and the Devotio Moderna.
Academic Career
After studying philology  at the University of Leiden (MA), Prof. Van Geest studied philosophy and theology at the Gregorian University in Rome (Lic Theol). He completed his PhD on Thomas a Kempis as a mystagogue in 1996 at Utrecht University. After a research stay as an NWO postdoc fellow (NWO: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) at Utrecht University, London he went back to the University of Tilburg and VU University in 2002 and 2005. Since then he has  been professor in Theology
Other academic activities
Prof. Van Geest has delivered papers in Amsterdam, Leuven, Rome, Jerusalem, Oxford, Spoleto, Groningen, Leiden, NIAS, St Andrews, Tübingen, Utrecht,
Editor Ad fontes. De bronnen van het vroege christendom. (Uitg. Meinema, Zoetermeer; sinds 2003);
Editor Augustiniana. Revue pour l’Étude de Saint Augustin et de l’ordre des augustins. (Leuven: KUL-Augustijns Historisch Instituut; sinds 2005);
Editor project After Augustine (St. Andrews University Scotland; Oxford University Press; sinds 2005);    
Editor Christendemocratische Verkenningen.
Editor Brill Series in Church History (Brill, Leiden)
Editor Late Antique History and Religion (Peeters, Leuven)
Editor-in-Chief Brill’s Encyclopedia of Early Christianity (Brill, Leiden-Boston-Köln)
Joint organisation (with Prof. B. ter Haar Romeny and prof. dr. E. Meijering) of an interdisciplinary congresses in Amsterdam, Utrecht, LeidenI preached in St Salvator's Chapel, St Andrews in Michaelmas term 1997.Since 2007 Prof van Geest has given more than 100 interviews for national newspapers, Dutch radio and television on developments in science, scholarship and the Roman Catholic Church; he was also columnist for several national newspapers. In April 2002 he delivered his inaugural Professorial lecture at the University of Utrecht on 'Augustine and his quest for sincerity' and in 2005 he gave my inaugural Professorial lecture in Amsterdam on Augustine as a negative theologian
Prof. Van Geest has published and edited about 13 books.

Sigrid Müller (Catholic Theological Faculty, University of Vienna, Austria)
 

Sigrid Müller is currently Head of the Department of Moral Theology at the University of Vienna. She studied Theology, Latin and Italian at Tübingen and at the Pontifical University Gregoriana at Rome. She holds also a Master’s degree in Family Counselling from the Catholic University of Salamanca. Her special research interests are the history of moral theology and bioethics with a focus on the ethics of technology. In 2008, she was appointed a Junior Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a member of the Curatorial Board of the Austrian Science Fund FWF. She is the author of Acting in a Contigent World. On the Concept and Significance of the recta ratio in Wilhelm von Ockham (published in German, Francke, 2000) and coeditor of Naturalising the Spirit? Contributions to the Current Debate on the Spirit (published in German, Königshausen und Neumann, 2008) and has been published in international journals.

Janet Soskice is the Professor Philosophical Theology and a Fellow of Jesus College. She was born in British Columbia, and studied at Cornell and Sheffield, prior to doing a doctorate in the philosophy of religion (religious language) at Oxford University. While the Gordon Milburn Junior Research Fellow and subsequently as a lecturer at Ripon College, Cuddesdon, she taught philosophy or religion, ethics and doctrine at Oxford University and philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London.

Professor Soskice is a past-President of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain and is currently President of the Society for the Study of Theology. She has been a visiting professor in Canada, Sweden and the United States and in 1997 was a McCarthy Visiting Professor at the Gregorian University in Rome. She is a past Board member of the international Catholic journal, Concilium, and is currently a member of the board of Modern Theology. Dr. Soskice is actively involved with the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, a Catholic house of study for women within the Cambridge Theological Federation, with Jewish-Christian relations, and with Anglican-Roman Catholic ecumenical discussions amongst other commitments.

In 2009 Professor Soskice was a Visiting Scholar at the Center of Theological Inquiry (Princeton). During the same year she was a member of a Canadian Institute for Health Research – funded scheme considering ‘Good Death in Hospice Care’, organized by the Centre for Studies in Religious and Society of the University of Victoria. Most recently (2010) Professor Soskice took part in the Building Bridges Seminar at Georgetown University (Muslim-Christian dialogue), and was a member of the Writers’ Workshop for Theologians, lead by Marilynne Robinson at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton.

Janet Soskice is the author of Metaphor and Religious Language (O.U.P. 1984); The Kindness of God (O.U.P. 2007) and has edited (with Grant Gillett and K.W. Fulford), of Medicine and Moral Reasoning (C.U.P , 1994) and with Diana Lipton, Feminism and Theology , Oxford Readings in Feminism (OUP, 2003). Her most recent book is Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Lost Gospels (Chatto, March 2009 and Knopf, summer 2009)

She has most recently edited, with Carlo Cogliati, David Burrell and Bill Stoeger, S.J., Creation and the God of Abraham, papers from a conference at the Vatican Observatory on creatio ex nihilo in science and the three Abrahamic faiths (Cambridge University Press, 2010).