Biography
As a Science Program Officer, Adam is a member of the Green Chemistry Initiative team and previously managed several grant portfolios as part of the foundation’s Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems and Marine Microbiology initiatives. He also leads a variety of awards supported by the foundation's Science Program, including in life sciences, science policy, open science and use-inspired science.
Adam leads the Moore Inventor Fellows program, which supports scientist-inventors who create new tools and technologies with a high potential to accelerate progress in the foundation’s areas of interest: scientific discovery, environmental conservation and patient care. The foundation allocated a total of nearly $34 million to support 50 Moore Inventor Fellows from 2016-2025, with programmatic activities continuing until 2028.
Prior to joining the foundation, Adam was a Foreign Affairs Officer and AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of State. He has a broad research background in natural products chemistry and biochemistry, marine microbiology, genetics, genomics, and drug discovery, and conducted fieldwork in a variety of temperate and tropical locations around the world.
Adam received a B.S. in biology from Providence College, a M.S. in marine biology from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and a Ph.D. in oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. He completed postdoctoral research as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Tübingen in Germany.
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