[6] A physicist by training, Pinsent was involved in the DELPHI project at CERN,[7] and co-authored 31 of the collaboration's publications.
A focus of his current research is the application of insights from autism and social cognition to "second-person" accounts of moral perception and character formation.
A member of the United Kingdom Institute of Physics and a tutor of the Maryvale Institute in Birmingham, Pinsent has been interviewed for various media, including the BBC[8] and EWTN,[9] on issues of science and faith.
[11] His most recent book is The Second-Person Perspective in Aquinas’s Ethics: Virtues and Gifts (2012).
Besides academic publications, he is a co-author of the Evangelium catechetical course and the Credo, Apologia, and Lumen pocket books.