Adam Aron is a climate and ecological activist and professor of psychology at the University of California, San Diego.

Adam’s research and teaching focus on the social science of collective action on the climate and ecological crisis. His activism has been through the Green New Deal at UC San Diego where he has worked on several campaigns such as ElectrifyUC and has also produced the documentary Coming Clean. He also volunteered and helped lead the Power San Diego campaign for not-for-profit public ownership of the local electric grid.

Before switching to the climate and ecological crisis, Adam had a successful career in cognitive neuroscience; his publications have been cited over 25,000 times.

Adam attended high school at Waterford Kamhlaba, United World College of Southern Africa in eSwatini, earned a BSc (hons) from the University of Cape Town, an MSc from the University of Edinburgh, a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and was a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA.

Nature magazine wrote about his reasons for shifting from neuroscience to the climate and ecological crisis.

Twitter/X: @swaziadam