Tom Adams received a B.A. in Chemistry and a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kentucky; also a M.S. in Agricultural Engineering and Ph.D. degree in Biological Engineering from the University of Georgia. 

Tom worked for nine years as an environmental consultant and ten years in the petrochemical industry in Louisiana where he was Vice President and Board member of Carter Chambers, LLC, a petrochemical services industry headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  He has worked since 1994 in the University of Georgia Engineering Outreach Service and became its Director in 2000.

The Engineering Outreach Service provides technology transfer to industry and government in the areas of renewable energy, energy conservation, water conservation, climate sustainability and other environmental and economic development issues. Dr. Adams’ current research centers on bio and thermo-chemical processes for producing renewable fuels, chemicals and energy from biomass.  He lives in Athens, Georgia, USA with his wife, Carolyn.  They have three children.