Alexandre Roberts is an intellectual historian specializing in Byzantium and the Middle East. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2015 and is currently Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California. His first book, Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch: The Christian Translation Program of Abdallah ibn al-Fadl, was published in 2020 by the University of California Press. His current research examines how scholars in the Eastern Mediterranean and Islamic world working in various traditions, from physics and alchemy to theology, understood matter and its transformation.