Paul Scherz is the Our Lady of Guadalupe Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame.
Paul Scherz studies the intersection of theology, science, and medicine. His first book, Science and Christian Ethics (Cambridge, 2019), used Stoic virtue theory as a lens to examine the moral formation of scientists. More recently, his books Tomorrow’s Troubles (Georgetown, 2022) and The Ethics of Precision Medicine (Notre Dame, 2024) examine the role of quantitative risk analysis in contemporary life and health care. He has published articles on many topics in bioethics, such as human enhancement, genetic technology and end of life ethics. He is working on projects on the ethics of artificial intelligence, which has led to his editing a collaborative work from the Dicastery for Culture and Education’s Centre for Digital Culture, Encountering Artificial Intelligence (Pickwick, 2024).
Scherz holds a Ph.D. and M.T.S. in moral theology from the University of Notre Dame (2014, 2010), a Ph.D. in genetics from Harvard University (2005) and a B.A. in molecular and cell biology from UC Berkeley (2001). Scherz has previously taught at the Catholic University of America and the University of Virginia.
