Professor Emeritus at the Open University in the Department of History of Science and Technology, which he founded in 1970. He is Affiliated Research Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. His publications include The Earth, Humanity and God (UCL Press, 1994), and Michael Faraday: physics and faith (Oxford University Press, 2000). Colin Russell is past president of the British Society for the History of Science, past president of Christians in Science, and past vice-president of Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF). He is a Chartered Chemist and FRSC (Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry).
