Adam Summers

Adam P. Summers (* 1964 ) is an American biologist.

At Swarthmore College Summers made 1,986 degrees in mathematics and engineering. He then completed a master's degree in biology at New York University , which he completed in 1992. He received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1999 with a thesis on tissue from cartilaginous fish . As a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, he researched the functional morphology of tail amphibians and crawfish .

He received his first professorship in 2001 at the University of California, Irvine . Since 2009 he has been teaching at the University of Washington . In 2006 and 2008 he conducted research as a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research . Summers has been writing a column on biomechanics in Natural History for many years .

Publications (selection)

with AJ Clark: Serpentine Steps - News and Views . In: Nature . tape 459 , 2009, p. 919-920 .
with JM Long: Mechanics of skeletal tissues of fishes . In: GV Lauder and B. Shadwick (Eds.): Fish Physiology . tape 23 . Academic Press, 2006, pp. 141-178 .
with JC O'Reilly: Kinematics of locomotion in two species of caecilian, Typhlonectes natans and Dermophis mexicanus . In: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . tape 121 , no. 1 , 1997, p. 65-76 .