Adam Falk

Adam Frederick Falk is the President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Earlier in his career, Falk was the President of Williams College,[1] a university administrator at Johns Hopkins University, and a theoretical physicist.[2]

Adam Falk
President of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Personal details
BornApril 19, 1965
NationalityUnited States

Education

Falk received a B.S. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1987 and a Ph.D in physics from Harvard University in 1991. He is also a graduate of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.[2]

Career

Falk began his career as a post-doctoral researcher working first at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and then at the University of California, San Diego. In 1994, he joined the physics faculty at Johns Hopkins University, becoming a full professor in 2000.

In 2006, Falk became the James B. Knapp Dean at the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.

From 2010 to 2017, Falk served as the 17th President of Williams College.[3]

Since the beginning of 2018, Falk has served as President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.[4]

Research

Falk is a high-energy physicist whose research focused on elementary particle physics and quantum field theory, particularly in interactions and decay of meson and baryons containing heavy quarks. He is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed papers on these and related topics.

Honors and awards
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2002 [5]
  • Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award
  • Young Investigator Award, NSF[6]
  • Sloan Research Fellowship[2]
  • Morehead-Cain Scholar, University of North Carolina

References
  1. "Williams College Presidents". Williams College. Archived from the original on 7 October 2010. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
  2. "Adam F. Falk at The Sloan Foundation". sloan.org. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
  3. Schaeffer, Angela Paik (2009). "Adam Falk Elected President of Williams College". Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved November 12, 2018.
  4. https://president.williams.edu/letters-from-the-president/an-important-message-to-the-williams-community/
  5. "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  6. "NSF Award Search: Award#9457916 - NSF Young Investigator". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-10-23.
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