Adam is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at St. Lawrence University, a small liberal arts college in Canton, New York. He received is Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2013 from UC Berkeley, where he was a member of the Charles B. Harris group. He uses time-resolved spectroscopies to study photocatalysts for artificial photosynthesis and better understand charge transfer processes involving metal centers. In his free time, he runs a photography blog, decaseconds.com.