Jess is Raymond E. Keller, Professor of Zoology and Chair of Integrative Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds an MDiv from the International School of Theology and a PhD in Biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the senior author of a widely used textbook, The World of the Cell (Pearson), and is the only scientist in the Religious Studies programme at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is Chair of the Board of the BioLogos Foundation, and serves as a faculty advisor for the Navigators and InterVarsity Graduate Christian Fellowship.
