Adam Siade

Biography

Dr Adam Siade is a Senior Research Scientist and Team Leader for the Water for Regional Development team, which resides under the Groundwater Management group in the Water Security program of CSIRO Environment. Prior to joining CSIRO in 2023, Dr Siade was a Senior Research Fellow with the University of Western Australia (UWA).

The primary focus of Dr Siade’s research has centred around how numerical groundwater flow and solute transport modelling can inform groundwater process identification and management decision-support. Both laboratory and field-based data underpin such analyses, and therefore much of his research has been focussed on the interactions between data and modelling, from both the perspective of data assimilation and that of optimal experimental design.

This involves a number of fundamental topics including, groundwater hydraulics, transport phenomena, uncertainty quantification, information theory, machine learning, optimisation and operations research. Accordingly, Dr Siade’s expertise extends to computer programming, software development, and high performance computing. Dr Siade has also maintained extensive collaboration with hydrogeochemists around the world, offering his expertise in history matching and uncertainty quantification to tackle this challenging and highly nonlinear class of problems, culminating in papers published in Nature Geoscience and Nature Water. His list of publications can be found here (Google Scholar), or here (Scopus).

Dr Siade is Principal PhD Supervisor for Reygie Macasieb and Co-Supervisor for Claudio Vergara Saez at UWA. Dr Siade has also developed a core unit in groundwater modelling for the Master of Hydrogeology at UWA and continues to coordinate half of this unit.