Jenni Adams

Jenni Adams
Born
Jennifer Anne Adams
AwardsDan Walls Medal (2021)
Academic background
Alma materOxford University
Thesis
  • Cosmological phase transitions: techniques and phenomenology (1995)
Doctoral advisorSubir Kumar Sarkar
Academic work
InstitutionsUppsala University|University of Canterbury
Doctoral studentsPauline Harris

Jennifer Anne Adams FRSNZ (born 1970) is a New Zealand physicist who works on astroparticle physics and cosmology at the University of Canterbury. She was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and was the winner of the 2021 Dan Walls Medal. She is a full professor, and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2023. Adams is the lead New Zealand scientist in the international neutrino observatory at the South Pole, the IceCube collaboration.