Adam is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the High Meadows Environmental Institute. He has an interdisciplinary background in environmental engineering, public policy, administration, and political economy. His work examines how the politics of infrastructure investment shape the resilience and distribution of benefits associated with our critical systems, such as drinking water. His PhD work focused on urban water systems in the United States to understand the role of institutional design in resilience and equity outcomes. At Princeton, he is investigating (i) how environmental, social, and financial uncertainty affect the way infrastructure providers process information, collaborate with other organizations, and make decisions and (ii) what this means for the resilience and fairness of the systems they govern. His methodological approaches include agent-based modeling, dynamical systems modeling, institutional analysis, network analysis, and content analysis of interviews and surveys.

Adam earned his PhD in Sustainability with a concentration in Complex Adaptive Systems Science at Arizona State University and was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. He earned a B.S. in Environmental Engineering and a B.A. in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.