Dr Adam Robinson

Adam is a Commercialisation Manager in the Physical Sciences Team where he works to commercialise technologies from across the physical sciences.

Prior to joining Cambridge Enterprise, Adam spent approximately fifteen years working in industrial and academic research and innovation settings. He previously worked as Head of Research Programme and CIH Programme Lead for the Centre for Digital Built Britain, funding and managing innovative research as a partner organisation in the £72m Innovate UK-funded Construction Innovation Hub. His work contributed to UKRI’s Transforming Construction Challenge, ensuring industrial impact from academic research, aiming to transform the construction industry via innovative digital tools and ways of working.

Prior to this he was Senior Specialist at Beko, where he was involved in setting up and running parent company Arçelik’s first international R&D centre in Cambridge, developing technologies and new products in collaboration with academic partners and start-ups. He previously worked at Nokia, where he was responsible for developing inventions for Nokia’s next-generation devices. This followed a period of academic post-doctoral research at Cambridge University across a range of topics including novel nanostructures, solar cells, superconductivity, flexible electronic devices and bioimplants, and insect biomechanics.

Adam is trained as a physicist with an MPhys from Lancaster University, a PhD in experimental physics from the University of Bristol, and is a Chartered Physicist.

Adam joined the Cambridge Enterprise team in July 2020.