Born and raised around London, Adam has been working on evolutionary psychiatry since 2016. He earned his PhD in 2024 for his dissertation ‘Evolving Evolutionary Psychiatry and Explaining Neurodiversity’, which received Summa Cum Laude. Before his PhD he completed a Bachelor's in Philosophy at Southampton University in 2013 and a Master's in Philosophy at Bristol University in 2015. He is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge.
 

Adam has been driven to work in evolutionary psychiatry since stumbling upon a scientific paradox which remains unsolved: why are mental disorders so common, genetic, and as yet unexplained? And why haven’t we been questioning the ultimate cause of mental disorder – explaining it not just in terms of brain states, but by the evolutionary process behind those brain states? Psychiatry has endlessly failed to find good explanations for mental disorders. Perhaps that's because it has been forgetting to reference back to the explanation of all biology, evolution by natural selection.

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Obsessed by this giant scientific and social problem in 2016, he left London to research and write in solitude in the Norfolk countryside. In 2020, after producing a draft book manuscript, he was offered a place in the Human Ecology group at the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, a newly established group and department at the University of Zürich, to convert his work into academic publications and a PhD, which he earned in 2024. He then joined the newly formed Evolution, Mental Health and Behaviour lab at the University of Cambridge as a postdoc, and continues to push forward research and communication initiatives which could transform the paradigm of the mental health sciences.

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Adam is the Founding Chair of the Foundation for Evolution and Mental Health, an Executive Committee Member of the Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Communications Chair for the International Society of Evolution, Medicine and Public Health, and host of the Evolving Psychiatry Podcast. He has published extensive academic research in the field of evolutionary psychiatry, with a focus on improving scientific methods for inferring evolutionary explanations, explaining neurodiversity, and investigating the impact of evolutionary explanations.​

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Adam is represented by the literary agent Toby Mundy, of Aevitas Creative. His first non-fiction book, The Specialised Mind will summarise his research for the general audience and is due for publication in Spring 2027.
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You can find regular updates and a full record of his achievements and publications on the 'Content' page of this website.