Adam Weis grew up in Louisville, Kentucky and studied at the University of Chicago as an undergraduate. In the summer of 2006 he participated in the Chicago-Chile exchange program, studying computer simulations of colloidal suspensions at the Universidad de Chile. With Prof. Heinrich Jaeger at Chicago, he completed a senior thesis on the mechanical properties of nanoparticle arrays. He graduated in 2008 with B.A.'s in mathematics and physics.

As a Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois, Adam began working with the Van Harlingen group in the summer of 2009. He currently studies high-temperature superconductivity in the cuprates, particularly strongly-correlated phases above Tc.

His primary research is on stripe phases and the suppression of Tc in La-214 thin films. Charge ordering in these films can be detected as the anomalously high noise power of low-frequency resistance fluctuations. Adam is currently studying the dependence of this noise power on temperature, doping, device size, and strain. A second research interest is the behavior of YBCO-based Giaever transformer devices in the pseudogap regime.