Adam is an Associate Professor and Reader in Statistics. Adam's research is in time series, spatial and spatio-temporal statistics, with an application focus in environmental, climate and ocean sciences. Adam has supervised 7 PhD students to completion (with a further 6 under current supervision), 5 post-doctoral researchers and 21 Master’s project students. Adam has published 35 peer-reviewed papers in statistics journals such as Biometrika (x3), the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series B and Series C, x3), Journal of Time Series Analysis, and Spatial Statistics (x2), and broader scientific journals such as the Journal of Geophysical Research, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (x2), and the European Journal of Operational Research. Adam is an elected Trustee of the Royal Statistical Society Council, and was the Discussion Papers Editor and Discussion Meetings Secretary for the Journals of the Royal Statistical Society from 2021-2024.

On this page you will find links to research talks on the Whittle Likelihood given at a Banff International Workshop (link in sidebar) and YouTube links for talks on oceanographic drifters and spectral density estimation (YouTube links below). You can also find links to open source data and software Adam has worked on with NOAA on ocean velocities, temperatures and current pathways (see links in sidebar).

Current positions and appointments
- Trustee, Royal Statistical Society Council (Elected in 2024)
- External Examiner, MSc in Statistics, King's College London
- Partner Investigator, Transforming energy Infrastructure through Digital Engineering (TIDE), Australian Research Council
- Lead for External Partners, ESPRC CDT in Mathematics for our Future Climate, Imperial College London (with Universities of Reading and Southampton)
- Mathematics Department Representative, Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet Doctoral Training Programme, Imperial College London
- Co-Lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London

Recent positions and appointments
- Discussion Papers Editor and Discussion Meetings Secretary, Journals of the Royal Statistical Society (2021-24)
- Environmental Statistics Section Committee Member, Royal Statistical Society (2021-24)
- External Examiner, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool (2021-24)
- Ocean Uncertainty Quantification Working Group Member, US Climate Variability and Predictability Program (2021-24)