Dr. Adams joined Rice University in 2025 as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. In 2015, he earned his B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). In 2022, he completed his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign under Professor David Flaherty. His doctoral studies focused on designing reactors, synthesizing nanoparticle catalysts, and understanding mechanistic connections of thermal and electrochemical oxygen reduction and hydrogen oxidation during the formation of hydrogen peroxide. Afterward, he joined the research group of Karthish Manthiram as a postdoctoral research scholar in the division of chemistry and chemical engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Here, he developed automated flow reactors and elucidated catalytic mechanisms of electrochemical water oxidation and O-atom transfer to propylene over PdPtO_x during the formation of propylene oxide within aqueous electrolytes.