Adamyan was born in
Odessa on 2 December 1938. In 1956–1961 Adamyan studied at the
Odessa I.I.Mechnikov State University. He graduated with a degree in theoretical physics, supervised by Yu. A. Tsvirko. In 1961–1964 he was a PhD student in the
Odessa Construction Institute, under the supervision of
Mark Grigorievich Krein. From 1964 to 1966 he worked as a
senior research fellow at the Odessa Lomonosov Technological Institute. On 20 June 1966, Adamyan defended his PhD thesis in
functional analysis and the theory of functions specialty at the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics,
Yerevan University. He taught at the Department of Mathematics at the Odessa Construction Institute for one year after his thesis defense. Afterwards, he headed a laboratory at the Institute of Physics of Odessa State University until 1975. On 17 October 1974 Vadym Adamyan defended his
doctoral thesis in functional analysis and theory of functions at the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Mathematics in Kiev. After defending his doctoral thesis, he became an
associate professor at Odessa State University, and then, in 1977,
full professor. In 1978, he became the head of the Department of Theoretical Physics. Within the department, he stimulated the development of new areas, such as
plasma physics,
solid state physics and physics of
nanostructures (see
nanotechnology). ==Research==