Rate My Professor Frederic Adam

Professor Frederic Adam serves as Professor and Head of Department in the Cork University Business School at University College Cork, as well as Principal Investigator in the INFANT Research Centre, specialising in Management Information Systems. His academic background includes graduation from Institut Supérieur du Commerce de Paris in Audit and Cost Control in 1989, a research Masters of Business Studies in Management Information Systems at University College Cork in 1992, a dual PhD awarded by the National University of Ireland and Université Paris 6 in 1999 under supervisors Prof. Jean-Charles Pomerol and Prof. Ciaran Murphy, and a diplome d'Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in 2008 advised by Prof. Patrick Brezillon. Early in his career, he worked as a Management Accountant in a French SME in the food industry from 1989 to 1990.

Adam joined University College Cork as a researcher in the Executive Systems Research Centre in 1992-1993, becoming College Lecturer in the Department of Accounting, Finance and Information Systems from 1993. He was appointed Statutory Lecturer in Business Information Systems in 2000, promoted to Associate Professor in 2007, and appointed Head of the Graduate School in the College of Business and Law in 2011. He directed the MBS in Management Information and Managerial Accounting Systems from 1998 to 2003 and the MBS Information Systems for Business Performance from 2005 to 2010. Adam held visiting research fellowships at the Institute of Social Psychology, London School of Economics (2005-2008), and the School of Economics and Management, Lund University (2009-2011). His research focuses on decision making and decision support systems, enterprise resource planning systems, research methods in information systems, mobile computing for real-time decision support, health information systems, and connected health. As Principal Investigator in INFANT, he leads the Leanbh project, awarded over €1 million by Science Foundation Ireland for home-based blood pressure monitoring in pregnancy. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Decision Systems since 2003, Vice-Chair and then Chair of IFIP Working Group 8.3 on Decision Support Systems from 2004, and received the IFIP Outstanding Service Award in 2010. With over 160 outputs, including 32 journal articles, 7 books, 4 special journal issues, and 93 conference papers, key recent publications encompass 'Monitoring and evaluation of digital mental health assessments in adults with mild to moderate intellectual disability and concurrent mental illness: a pilot study' (2026), 'Addressing the Humans in the Delivery Room—Optimising Neonatal Monitoring and Decision-Making in Transition' (2025), and 'Clinician-Focused Connected Health Requirements Gathering for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Through Clinical Journey Mapping: Design Science Study' (2025).