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Fr. Adam Hincks, S.J. is an assistant professor and Sutton Family Chair in Science, Christianity and Cultures in the University of Toronto Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and in the Christianity & Culture Programme at St. Michael’s College. He is also an adjunct scholar of the Vatican Observatory.
His primary research interest is physical cosmology, or the empirical study of the Universe as a whole. He helps to create and run observatories that make maps of the sky at radio wavelengths and specializes in analyzing the resulting data to obtain cosmological and astrophysical information. A Jesuit priest, Prof. Hincks also has a background in philosophy and theology and contributes to the study of the relationship between physical theory and the Christian faith, with a particular focus on the notion of creation.
Prof. Hincks received an Hon. BSc. in Astrophysics and Physics from the University of Toronto in 2004 and a Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University in 2009. In 2011 he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in Montréal, and from 2013 to 2015 did a diploma in philosophical studies at Regis College, Toronto. After a two year postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of British Columbia, he completed a Bachelor of Sacred Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 2018, followed by a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from Regis College together with a Master of Theology from Regis College and the University of Toronto in 2020.
He is currently the vice-president of the board of the Toronto Chapter of the Society of Catholic Scientists and serves as a literary trustee for the estate of Bernard Lonergan. He is a member of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), Simons Observatory and Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX) collaborations.