Prof. Paul O’Hara holds the Chair of Ontology and Scientific Reasoning at the Pontifical Istituto Universitario Sophia in Italy, where he has been based since 2015. Previously he was full professor and Chair of the Dept. of Mathematics at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago.

Among his numerous publications is a (coauthored) book titled Unified Field Theory and Occam’s Razor (World Scientific Publishing, 2022), and articles on the foundations of quantum mechanics and general relativity. His most recent publication in that regard is Entanglement – a higher order symmetry (Phys. Sci. Forum 2023, 7(1), 4; https://doi.org/10.3390/ECU2023-14011 ).

He has been an annual visitor to the Lonergan Institute in Boston College since 2016, where he has presented papers such as The Marian Profile of the Church: moving beyond dialectic to dialogue (2023), Cosmopolis and the Law of the Cross (2022) and Quantum Entanglement and Emergence (2021). These presentations have also been published.

Prof. O’Hara holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from UCLA (1991) and a research MA in systematic theology from CTU (2009, Chicago).

Here are some photos in case you have trouble finding your way. 
- Go to the Church of Notre Dame on 114th Street and Morningside Dr
- Walk west up 114th, and enter through the black gate at the side of the Church
- Walk forward and left, seeing the garden on your left, and then go up the stairs to the rectory
- Come through the double doors, and enter the Thomas Merton Institute for Catholic Life. Ring the bell if the door is locked