Adam received his PhD in Welding Engineering at The Ohio State University. His work was focused on integrating computational and experimental techniques to predict susceptibility to weld cracking, and to develop new weld metal compositions for nuclear power applications. Adam currently works at Thermo-Calc Software providing training and applications support to users, and has applied his welding metallurgy background along with CALPHAD tools to a wide array of materials related challenges, including alloy development, hot cracking in welding/additive, strain age cracking, hydrogen cracking, stress relief cracking, and prediction of material properties.