Adam is a Research Associate at the IEEF and the Department of Earth Sciences who is interested in using mathematical techniques to model environmental flows. His current research is primarily focused on developing simplified models of porous flow for Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS), with related work on diffusion in subsurface systems, the growth of magmatic bodies, and glacial deformation. His main research project is the development of CO2GraVISim, an open-source software implementing a vertically integrated flow model for rapid estimation of CO2 plume behaviour for CCS, developed as part of the StrataTrapper project.

Previously, Adam has held an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship at Imperial College London following his PhD there as part of the Laminar Flow Control group in the Department of Mathematics. His work there employed a combination of analytical and numerical techniques to investigate several aspects of the Stationary Crossflow Vortex instability that can occur on aircraft wings – their initial onset, generation by surface roughness, and amplification via nonlinear interactions.