What I work with

Python, C++, Fortran, MPI and OpenMP, Linux, LaTeX. PyTorch, LoRA fine-tuning with Unsloth, RunPod. LAMMPS, including source level modification. HPC clusters.

Experience

AI research fellow

Feb-May 2026 · SPAR Research

Measured how language model behaviour changes under controlled variation of fine-tuning conditions, supervised by Maxime Riché and Daniel Tan of the Center on Long-Term Risk, London.

The subject was inoculation prompting, a method for suppressing unwanted behaviour by eliciting it deliberately during training. I ran LoRA fine-tunes across varied training data and prompt conditions and tested whether the suppressed behaviour could be recovered under related prompting. It often could. We mapped where the leakage comes from and found that pairing benign training data with anti-inoculation prompts reduces it substantially.

Separately, I build agents that operate external software, which means defining the tool surface, assembling test data, and improving the agent against measured results.

Postdoctoral fellow

2023-2025 · Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Coarse-grained molecular dynamics of membranes deformed by protein filaments, in the group of Anđela Šarić.

I built the models and ran the simulations in LAMMPS, modifying its source code where the standard package could not produce the interactions the models required. I mentored Master’s students and junior PhD students.

  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie action IST-BRIDGE fellowship, 160k EUR, won on own application
  • Adam Prada, M. Muñoz-Basagoiti, F. Frey, B. Meadowcroft, M. Amaral, A. Šarić, “A tutorial for mesoscale computer simulations of lipid membranes: tether pulling, tubulation and fluctuation”, Soft Matter, 2025, 21, 7736, doi: 10.1039/D5SM00148J
  • Adam Prada, F. Frey, A. Šarić, “Does membrane tension help or hinder neck scission?”, in revision, 2026

PhD in chemistry

2018-2023 · Department of Chemistry and Trinity College, University of Cambridge

Quantum dynamics in condensed phase, supervised by Stuart Althorpe.

I wrote two simulation packages from scratch, in Python, C++ and Fortran, including the numerical solvers and parallelisation with MPI and OpenMP for cluster runs, and validated them against exact quantum results where those could be computed. I taught statistical mechanics, thermodynamics and quantum mechanics for four years and tutored Master’s and junior PhD students.

  • EPSRC Doctoral Training Award, fully funded studentship, 100k GBP
  • Cambridge Trust Cambridge European Scholarship (honorary)
  • Adam Prada, E. S. Pós, S. C. Althorpe, “Comparison of Matsubara dynamics with exact quantum dynamics for an oscillator coupled to a dissipative bath”, J. Chem. Phys. 2023, 158, 114106, doi: 10.1063/5.0138250
  • PhD thesis: “Dissipative Matsubara Dynamics”, doi: 10.17863/CAM.95949

PIBBSS fellow

Apr-Jul 2022 · Centre for Theoretical Studies, Charles University, Prague

A research fellowship for scientists moving into AI from other fields. My project was on quantifying the agency of computational systems from an information theoretic point of view, supervised by Tomáš Gavenčiak.

Earlier research

2012-2017

  • Stochastic coupled cluster calculations on the uniform electron gas and solid lithium hydride using the HANDE package. Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, with Alex Thom, 2017.
  • Expression, purification and characterisation of antibody fragments. BIOCEV, Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University, with Cyril Bařinka, 2016. Contributed to Z. Novakova et al., Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2020, 21(18), 6672, doi: 10.3390/ijms21186672
  • Synthesis and characterisation of thiadodecaborane derivatives. Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, with Jan Macháček, 2012-2015. Contributed to J. Fanfrlík, A. Přáda et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 10139, doi: 10.1002/anie.201405901

Education

PhD, Theoretical Chemistry

2018-2023 · University of Cambridge

BA MSci Honours, Natural Sciences (Chemistry)

2014-2018 · Trinity College, University of Cambridge

Class I in all four years, ranked 3rd of 60 in the final year. Norrish Prize for distinction in physical chemistry and Norrish Prize for the best theoretical project. Chemistry, physics and cell biology in the early years, specialising in physical chemistry.

MSci thesis: “Matsubara trajectory study of centroid molecular dynamics”, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7576509. I wrote a simulation package from scratch in Fortran and used it to explain how centroid molecular dynamics approximates Matsubara dynamics.

Organisations founded and led

Chemistry Race

2019-present · United Kingdom, Austria, Czechia

I took a Czech competition and established it in two more countries. I proposed the Cambridge edition to the Department of Chemistry, ran the first two years as head organiser, and later set up the Austrian edition at IST Austria. It now also runs at Oxford and Pardubice.

For each edition I raised the funding and secured institutional backing, recruited and coordinated volunteers, and ran events for up to 300 school students. I wrote the automated multilingual LaTeX system that typesets the entire international competition, which is still in use. I handed the British organisation to a successor and have supported the team since.

Trinity College Science Society

2016-2017 · President, University of Cambridge

I ran the society’s weekly talks programme, organising fourteen talks with scientists including three Nobel laureates, two student visits to the preserved laboratory of the 3rd Lord Rayleigh, and the annual symposium. I joined as computer officer in 2015, stayed on the committee after my presidential term, and advised the presidents who followed.

Journal of the ASB Society

2021 · Cofounder

A peer reviewed journal that gives school and undergraduate students their first experience of academic publishing.

Teaching

  • Undergraduate supervisor in chemistry, University of Cambridge, 2018-2022. Statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, theoretical chemistry, and perturbation theory in further quantum mechanics, plus first year chemistry.
  • Demonstrator, undergraduate theoretical chemistry practicals, University of Cambridge, 2018-2020.
  • Lecturer in physical chemistry and thermodynamics, Czech Chemistry Olympiad summer school at Běstvina, 2016-present. I also authored the physical chemistry problems for the highest category of the national competition in 2019.
  • Supervisor, Wuhan University Cambridge Winter Program, 2018 and 2019.

Selected awards

  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie action IST-BRIDGE fellowship, IST Austria, 2023
  • EPSRC Doctoral Training Award, 2018
  • Norrish Prize for distinction in physical chemistry and Norrish Prize for the best theoretical project, University of Cambridge, 2018
  • Gold medal, International Chemistry Olympiad, Hanoi, 2014, ranked 24th of 291
  • Gold medal, European Union Science Olympiad, Vilnius, 2012, ranked 5th of 44

Languages

Czech (native), English (C2), German (B2).

Elsewhere

Long distance running, karate, ballroom dancing, amateur astronomy.