Adam Brumm

Biography

Adam Brumm is a professor of archaeology at Griffith University. He was awarded his PhD from the Australian National University in 2007 and has conducted extensive fieldwork in Indonesia since 2003. The papers he has published, many of them in Nature, bridge the HASS and STEM divide and cover many topics, from the unearthing of the oldest known fossils of Homo floresiensis to the discovery of ‘ice age’ cave art in Sulawesi. The latter findings were twice deemed to be among the top 10 breakthroughs of the year (2014 and 2019) by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, while National Geographic considers this work to be among the top 20 discoveries of the last decade. Recent accolades include the 2022 Achmad Bakrie Award (Honorary)—one of the most important awards in Indonesia for science, technology, social thought and literature—and the Shanghai Archaeology Forum’s 2023 Field Discovery Award. He is also a two-time winner of the Australian Archaeological Association’s Ulm-Ross Prize. A former Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow, Brumm was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2019 and is a member of the ARC College of Experts.