September 2009

CURRICULUM VITAE

Andrew Charles Pinsent

Ian Ramsey Centre, 34 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LH

PERSONAL

E-mail:              andrew.pinsent(at)hmc.ac.ox.uk

Tel:                  +44 01865 280710

EDUCATION

B.A.,                Oxford University (Physics), 1988

M.A.,               Oxford University (Physics), 1991

Ph.D.,              Oxford University (Particle Physics), 1991

Ph.B.                Pontifical Gregorian University (Philosophy), 2000

S.T.B.              Pontifical Gregorian University (Theology), 2003

Ph.L.                Pontifical Gregorian University (Philosophy), 2005

Ph.D.               Saint Louis University (Philosophy), 2009

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION IN PHILOSOPHY

Joint Attention and the Second-Personal Foundation of Aquinas's Virtue Ethics

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION IN PHYSICS

A Study of Leptonic Decay Channels at the Z-Zero Resonance Peak

HONORS AND AWARDS

Exhibition Scholarship, Merton College, Oxford (1985)

Industrial Sponsorship with International Computers Limited (1987)

Special Commendation for Experimental Work in Physics, Oxford University (1987)

Grant awarded to conduct research at CERN, Geneva on the DELPHI experiment (1988)

Grant awarded to participate in the High Energy Physics Conference at Stanford (1989)

Member of the United Kingdom Institute of Physics (1993)

Participant by invitation to the Vatican Jubilee Conference for Scientists, Rome (2000)

James Collins Award for Excellence in Graduate Education, Saint Louis University (2008)

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Research Student, Department of Nuclear Physics, Oxford (1987 – 1990)

Project Leader, detector online and data analysis software, CERN, Geneva (1989 – 1990)

Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy, St. Louis University (2005 - 2009)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL POSITIONS

Smith System Engineering Limited, United Kingdom (1991 – 1994)

System Engineer, on an IT procurement project for the British Cabinet Office

System Engineer, geographical information systems research

Project Manager, market testing for the UK Computer and Telecommunications Agency

Project Manager, digital map standards for UK mapping agencies

Participant, at an international virtual reality conference, Orlando, Florida

Project Manager, procurement requirements for a virtual reality system

Itautec Philco S.A., São Paulo, Brazil (1994 – 1998)

Business Consultant, Electronics Export Division, Itautec Philco S.A, São Paulo

Lecturer, Software Exporters Conference, Joinville (1995)

Business Consultant, European headquarters (Banctec Informatica S.A.), Lisbon

Director, Itautec Consultancy Services Ltd, United Kingdom (1996)

Venerable English College and the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome (1998 – 2005)

Seminarian, Diocese of Arundel and Brighton, England (1998 – 2004)

Deacon (ordained 2004)

Priest (ordained 2005)

PUBLICATIONS

               “The Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Spirit,” in The Oxford Handbook to Thomas Aquinas, edited by Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump, Oxford University Press, accepted for publication in 2009.

               “Humility,” in Participating in the Divine Nature: Christian Virtues for Everyday Life, Eds. Mike Austin and Doug Geivett, Eerdmans, accepted for publication in 2009.

               “Aquinas on Wisdom as a Second-Personal Habitus,” paper presented at the Society of Christian Philosophers Eastern Regional Meeting, Worcester, MA, March 27-28, 2009.

As a member of the DELPHI Collaboration at CERN, Geneva

               “Charged Particle Multiplicity Distributions in Restricted Rapidity Intervals in Z0 Hadronic Decays,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). 1991. Published in Zeitschrift Für Physik C 52:271-281, 1991.

               “A Search for Neutral Higgs Particles in Z0 Decays,” by the DELPHI Collaboration
(P. Abreu et al.). CERN-PPE-91-132, Aug 1991. 32pp. Published in Nuclear Physics B 373:3-34, 1992.

               “A Measurement of the Lifetime of the Tau Lepton,” by the DELPHI Collaboration
(P. Abreu et al.). CERN-PPE-91-115, Jul 1991. 15pp. Published in Physics Letters B 267:422-430, 1991.

               “The Reaction E+ E- ---> Gamma Gamma (Gamma) at Z0 Energies,” by DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-PPE-91-109, Jul 1991. 16pp. Published in Physics Letters B 268:296-304, 1991.

               “Study of Orientation of Three Jet Events in Z0 Hadronic Decays using the Delphi Detector,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-PPE-91-79, May 1991. 15pp. Published in Physics Letters B 274:498-506, 1992.

               “Search for Excited Charged Leptons in Z0 Decays,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-PPE-91-100, Jun 1991. 19pp. Published in Zeitschrift Für Physik C 53:41-49, 1992.

               “Determination of Z0 Resonance Parameters and Couplings from its Hadronic And Leptonic Decays,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-PPE-91-95, Jun 1991. 60pp. Published in Nuclear Physics B 367:511-574, 1991.

               “A Study of the Reaction E+ E- ---> Mu+ Mu- around the Z0 Pole,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-PPE-91-43, Mar 1991. 15pp. Published in Physics Letters B 260:240-248, 1991.

               “Search for Low Mass Higgs Bosons Produced in Z0 Decays,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-PPE-90-193, Dec 1990. 28pp. Published in Zeitschrift Für Physik C 51:25-36, 1991.

               “Experimental Study of the Triple Gluon Vertex,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-PPE-90-174, Nov 1990. 12pp. Published in Physics Letters B 255:466-476, 1991.

               “Charged Particle Multiplicity Distributions in Z0 Hadronic Decays,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-PPE-90-173, Nov 1990. 23pp. Published in Zeitschrift Für Physik C 50:185-194, 1991.

               “Search for Nonstandard Z0 Decays in Two Particle Final States,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-PPE-90-167, Nov 1990. 18pp. Contributed to International Conference on High Energy Physics, Singapore, Aug 2-8, 1990.

               “Search for Higgs Bosons Using the DELPHI Detector,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-PPE-90-163, Nov 1990. 10pp. Contributed to International Conference on High Energy Physics, Singapore, Aug 2-8, 1990.

               “The DELPHI Detector at LEP,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P.A. Aarnio et al.). CERN-PPE-90-128, CERN-EF-90-5, Sep 1990. 73pp. Published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods A 303:233-276, 1991.

               “Measurement of the Partial Width of the Decay of the Z0 into Charm Quark Pairs,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-PPE-90-123, Aug 1990. 14pp. Published in Physics Letters B 252:140-148, 1990.

               “Energy-Energy Correlations in Hadronic Final States from Z0 Decays,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-PPE-90-122, Aug 1990. 13pp. Published in Physics Letters B 252:149-158, 1990

               “Charged Multiplicity and Rapidity Distributions in Z0 Hadronic Decays,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-PPE-90-117, Aug 1990. 28pp. Contributed to International Conference on High Energy Physics, Singapore, Aug 2-8, 1990.

               “A Measurement of the Partial Width of the Z0 Boson into B Quark Pairs,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-PPE-90-118, Aug 1990. 10pp. Contributed to International Conference on High Energy Physics, Singapore, Aug 2-8, 1990.

               “DELPHI Results on the Z0 Resonance Parameters through its Hadronic and Leptonic Decay Modes,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-PPE-90-119, Aug 1990. 19pp. Contributed to International Conference on High Energy Physics, Singapore, Aug 2-8, 1990.

               “A Comparison of Jet Production Rates on the Z0 Resonance to Perturbative QCD,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-EP-90-89, Jun 1990. 14pp. Published in Physics Letters B 247:167-176, 1990.

               “A Search for Sleptons and Gauginos in Z0 Decays,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-EP-90-80, Jun 1990. 19pp. Published in Physics Letters B 247:157-166, 1990.

               “A Study of Intermittency in Hadronic Z0 Decays,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-EP-90-78, Jun 1990. 20pp. Published in Physics Letters B 247:137-147, 1990.

               “Search for Scalar Quarks in Z0 Decays,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-EP-90-79, Jun 1990. 19pp. Published in Physics Letters B 247:148-156, 1990.

               “Search for Pair Production of Neutral Higgs Bosons in Z0 Decays,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-EP-90-60, May 1990. 20pp. Published in Physics Letters B 245:276-288, 1990.

               “Search for Light Neutral Higgs Particles produced in Z0 Decays,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-EP-90-44, Apr 1990. 18pp. Published in Nuclear Physics B 342:1-14, 1990.

               “Search for the T and B-Prime Quarks in Hadronic Decays of the Z0 Boson,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-EP-90-46, Apr 1990. 12pp. Published in Physics Letters B 242:536-546, 1990.

               “Search for Heavy Charged Scalars in Z0 Decays,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-EP-90-33, Mar 1990. 15pp. Published in Physics Letters B 241:449-458, 1990.

               “A Precise Measurement of the Z Resonance Parameters through its Hadronic Decays,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.). CERN-EP-90-32, Mar 1990. 18pp. Published in Physics Letters B 241:435-448, 1990.

               “Study of the Leptonic Decays of the Z0 Boson,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P.A. Aarnio et al.). CERN-EP-90-31, Mar 1990. 14pp. Published in Physics Letters B 241:425-434,1990 Also in Moriond 1990: Electroweak:79-92 (QCD161:R4:1990:V.1).

               “Study of Hadronic Decays of the Z0 Boson,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P.A. Aarnio et al.). CERN-EP-90-19, Feb 1990. 24pp. Published in Physics Letters B 240:271, 1990.

               “Measurement of the Mass and Width of the Z0 Particle from Multi-Hadronic Final States Produced In E+ E- Annihilations,” by the DELPHI Collaboration (P.A. Aarnio et al.). CERN-EP-89-134, Oct 1989. 11pp. Published in Physics Letters B 231:539, 1989.

Further articles

               “Struck by the Spirit,” published as the lead article in The Tablet international Catholic weekly, 24 July 1999

               “Pavlov’s Dogs Go Hunting,” in The Venerabile, the journal of the Venerable English College, Rome, 2001 edition

               “Space, Time and Eternity,” in The Venerabile, the journal of the Venerable English College, Rome, 2002 edition

               “Nature and Supernature,” in The Venerabile, the journal of the Venerable English College, Rome, 2003 edition

               “Catholicism and Science,” in The Beda Review, the journal of the Beda College, Rome, 2004 edition

Reviews

               “God’s Library through Einstein’s Eyes,” review of Einstein and Religion by Max Jammer (1999, Princeton University Press), in Physics World, June 2000.

               “Can Physics Explain Miracles?” review of The Miracles of Exodus: A Scientist's Discovery of the Extraordinary Natural Causes of the Biblical Stories by Colin Humphreys (2003, Continuum Press), in Physics World, December 2003.

Courses taught

                “An Introduction to Philosophy: Self and Reality”, PHIL 105-01, Fall 2006 - 2007, Saint Louis University
 “An Introduction to Philosophy: Self and Reality”, PHIL 105-20, Spring 2006 - 2007, Saint Louis University
 “Philosophy of God”, PHIL 325-02, Fall 2007 - 2008, Saint Louis University
“An Introduction to Ethics”, PHIL 205-15, Spring 2007 - 2008, Saint Louis University

Other activities

               “From Genesis to the X-Files”, participant in a round-table discussion on contemporary science and faith issues aired over Vatican Radio for the Year 2000 Jubilee, May 2000.

               “The Dream of Democritus: the Foundations of Matter and the End of Classical Physics”, a lecture to the Wiseman Society of the Venerable English College, Rome, November 2003.

               “Faith and Science: Conflict or Cooperation?”, a presentation given at the London Oratory, June 2006.

               “The Philosophy and Theology of Abortion”, a lecture given at Webster University, St. Louis, May 2007.