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Celia Deane-Drummond is the inaugural director of the Center for Theology, Science, and Human Flourishing and a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame. She previously was the director of the Centre for Religion and the Biosciences at Chester University, United Kingdom. After a doctorate in plant physiology at Letcombe ARC Research Station and Reading University and postdoctoral research at the University of British Columbia and Cambridge, she taught at Durham. She then studied for a degree in theology at Bristol, followed by a Ph.D. in Moltmann's theology of creation at Manchester University, and began teaching at Chester in 1994. She has written numerous books relating science and theology, including, most recently, Genetics and Christian Ethics (2006), Ecotheology (2008), and Christ and Evolution (2009).