Shaffique Adam is an associate professor at the department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yale-NUS college, the department of physics and the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials at the National University of Singapore. He did his undergraduate studies at Stanford University (BS, 2000) and was a graduate student at Cornell University (PhD, 2006).

After spending three years as a post-doctoral researcher at the condensed matter theory center at the University of Maryland, he later joined the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a Fellow of the National Research Council of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He moved to Singapore in 2013.

His current research explores the complex and surprising ways electrons behave when they are subject to the interplay of quantum mechanics, material imperfections, confined geometries and interactions with other electrons. He is a 2012 recipient of the Singaporean National Research Foundation Fellowship, a 2015 recipient National University of Singapore Young Investigator Award, and a 2020 recipient of the Singapore National Research Foundation Investigator Award.

Shaffique has published over 80 manuscripts in prominent journals including Nature, Nature Physics, the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences and Physical Review Letters trying to understand the physical mechanisms at play in a variety of technologically important advanced materials including semiconductor quantum dots, magnetic nanoparticles, and graphene.