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Dr. Adam Harris serves as Senior Lecturer and HBSc Coordinator in Mathematics within the School of Science and Technology at the University of New England. He obtained his BSc (Hons) and MSc from the University of Sydney, completing his Master's in 1987, followed by a PhD from Stony Brook University in 1993. Post-doctorate, he held the G.C. Evans Instructorship at Rice University. Returning to Australia in 1996, he undertook an Australian Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Adelaide until 1999, then a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science research fellowship in Japan from 1999 to 2000, and a further postdoctoral position at the University of Melbourne from 2000 to 2002. He joined the University of New England as a lecturer in 2002.

Harris's research centers on pure mathematics, with primary areas in complex analysis and differential geometry, focusing on complex analytic geometry and pseudoholomorphic curves. His work addresses topics such as removable singularities, magnetic monopole fields, geodesic flows, conformal great-circle flows, hyperbolicity of domains, deformations of complex cone singularities, and J-holomorphic curves. Key publications include "Ricci-positive geodesic flows and point-completion of static monopole fields" (Journal of Geometry and Physics, 2019, with K. Dorji), "An intrinsic approach to stable embedding of normal surface deformations" (Methods and Applications of Analysis, 2017), "Conformal great-circle flows on the three-sphere" (Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 2016, with G. Paternain), "Dynamically convex Finsler metrics and J-holomorphic embedding of asymptotic cylinders" (Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry, 2008), and "Branch-structure of J-holomorphic curves near periodic orbits of a contact manifold" (Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 2008, with K. Wysocki). He has supervised PhD students, including Kumbu Dorji (completed 2019) on removable singularities of magnetic monopole fields on Sasakian manifolds. Harris teaches first- to third-year mathematics, including calculus and complex analysis, as well as honours-level differential geometry and postgraduate courses on Riemann surfaces and Riemannian geometry. He contributes administratively as a member of the UNE Curriculum Committee and former Postgraduate Coordinator for Mathematics, and co-organized the Biennial Japanese-Australian Workshop on Real and Complex Singularities from 2005 to 2017. He holds memberships in the American Mathematical Society and Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute.