Professor Shaffique Adam was born in Nairobi, Kenya. After completing his A-levels in Kenya, he went to Stanford University where he received his BS, majoring in Physics with a minor in Mathematics. He graduated with departmental honours and a University distinction. After spending four months as an exchange student at Magdalen College in Oxford University, Prof Adam went on to pursue his doctorate in Theoretical Physics at Cornell University, where he worked on the magnetic properties of nanoscale conductors. He then moved to the Condensed Matter Theory Center at the University of Maryland where he worked on the electronic transport properties of graphene. Before coming to Singapore in 2012, Prof Adam spent three years as a National Research Council Fellow in the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology. He currently holds appointments at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering,Yale-NUS College, the Department of Physics, and the Center for Advanced 2D Materials.
Research Interests
As a theoretical physicist, Prof Adam is interested in the complex and surprising ways electrons behave when they are subject to the interplay of quantum mechanics, material imperfections, confined geometries and interactions with other electrons. Prof Adam was awarded a Singapore National Research Foundation Fellowship which includes a five-year research grant to support research on the effects of electron interactions in new materials like graphene and topological insulators, and the National Research Foundation Investigator to understand higher temperature superconductivity in twisted moire heterostructures.