Adam is a Professorial Fellow and Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. He received his PhD from the University of Guelph in 2010, moved to Southampton in 2011, and currently leads the UKRI/ERC Consolidator Grant GWModels. His work focuses on gravitational-wave source modelling and perturbative methods in general relativity, particularly the development of asymmetric-binary models using self-force theory.