Professor Mike Adams FREng, CEng, FIChemE, C.Chem, FRSC, CPhys, FInstP

Professor Mike Adams

School of Chemical Engineering
Professor of Product Engineering and Manufacturing

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 5297
Email
m.j.adams@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Chemical Engineering
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Mike has over 230 papers in scientific journals and 5 edited books.

He is the recipient of the Donald Julius Groen Prize for outstanding achievements in interfacial engineering and the Tribology Trust Silver Medal for outstanding and sustained achievements in tribology.

He is a member of the editorial boards of seven scientific journals.He has coordinated five major grants from the EU and also led major grants from EPSRC. His interests include process engineering, the applications of in-line sensors, particle technology, tribology, sensory perception and modelling.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Molecular Acoustics
  • GradRSC in Chemistry
  • Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
  • Fellow of the institution of Chemical Engineers
  • Fellow of the Institute of Physics
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Biography

Mike Adams studied for a PhD in molecular acoustics at the University of Essex and subsequently joined Unilever Research where he was a Senior Scientist when he left to take up a professorial position in the School of Chemical Engineering.

His contributions in interfacial engineering and tribology were acknowledge by the awards of the Donald Julius Groen Prize the Tribology Trust Silver Medal. He was one of the pioneers in applying rigorous tribological principles to the fields of powder technology, and skin friction and its influence on tactile perception.

He has also taken an active interest in applying modelling and simulation to a range of material systems involving molecular dynamics, finite element analysis, the fast multipole boundary element and discrete element methods.

Postgraduate supervision

Mike Adams undertakes postgraduate student supervision in the Engineering Doctorate scheme and EU funded projects.

Research

His current research involves understanding the origin, prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers, the dispersion and dissolution of hydrocolloids, the wear behaviour of metal coatings.

His recent research includes the development of haptic feedback in virtual reality environments, understanding the plasticisation of polymers at the molecular scale and discrete computational modelling of twin-screw granulation.

Other activities

  • Member of the Executive Editorial Board of Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties (2015-)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of Biosurface and Biotribology (2015-)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Powder Technology (2012-)
  • Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Lubricants (2011-)
  • Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Powder Technology (2005-)
  • Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Tribology International (1998-)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the IMechE, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering (2005-)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Zheng , L, Zhao, Q, Adams, M, Alexiadis, A, Wang, Y, Jin, H & Guo , L 2024, '', Journal of Molecular Liquids, vol. 414, no. Part A, 126110.

脡vora, AS, Zhang, Z, Johnson, SA & Adams, MJ 2024, '', Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, vol. 150, 106296.

脡vora, AS, Abiakam, N, Zhang, Z, Johnson, SA, Adams, MJ, Bader, DL & Worsley, PR 2023, '', Journal of Dermatological Science, vol. 112, no. 2, pp. 63-70.

Evora, A, Abiakam, N, Jayabal, H, R Worsley, P, Zhang, Z, Johnson, S, Adams, M & L Bader, D 2023, '', Journal of Tissue Viability, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 305-313.

脡vora, AS, Zhang, Z, Johnson, SA & Adams, MJ 2023, '', Skin Research and Technology, vol. 29, no. 11, e13507.

Torres, DT, Vezzoli, E, Lemaire-Semail, B, Adams, M, Giraud-Audine, C, Giraud, F & Amberg, M 2022, '', IEEE Transactions on Haptics, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 8-13.

Sahputra, IH, Alexiadis, A & Adams, MJ 2020, '', ChemEngineering, vol. 4, no. 2, 30, pp. 1-15.

Andrews, J, Adams, M & Montenegro-Johnson, T 2020, '', Science Advances, vol. 6, no. 41, eabb6912.

Adams, M, Yuma, S-M, Baek, I-K, Hong, D, Kim, J, Jung, KJ, Kim, S, Eom, K, Jang, JJ, Kim, S, Sattorov, M, Lee, M-G, Kim, S & Park, G-S 2020, '', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 117, no. 50, pp. 31665.

Sahputra, IH, Alexiadis, A & Adams, MJ 2019, '', Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics, vol. 57, no. 8, pp. 454-464.

Mahmah, O, Adams, M, Omar, C, Gururajan, B & Salman, A 2019, '', International Journal of Pharmaceutics, vol. 559, pp. 156-172.

Adams, M & Andrews, J 2018, '', Powder Technology.

Sahputra, IH, Alexiadis, A & Adams, M 2018, '', Molecular Simulation, vol. 44, no. 9, pp. 774-780.

Conference contribution

Yum, SM, Baek, IK, Hong, D, Kim, S, Eom, K, Jang, J, Kim, S, Sattorov, M, Lee, MG, Kim, S, Adams, M & Park, GS 2019, . in IRMMW-THz 2019 - 44th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves., 8873980, International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, IRMMW-THz, vol. 2019-September, IEEE Computer Society Press, 44th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, IRMMW-THz 2019, Paris, France, 1/09/19.

Review article

脡vora, AS, Adams, MJ, Johnson, SA & Zhang, Z 2021, '', Skin Pharmacology and Physiology, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 146-161.