Adam Frederick Falk is the President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Earlier in his career, Falk was the President of

Williams College Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a colonist from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was kill ...

, a university administrator at

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, and a theoretical physicist.

Early life

Falk is a native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He graduated from the

North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM) is a two-year, public residential high school located in Durham, North Carolina, that focuses on the intensive study of science, mathematics and technology. It accepts rising juniors ...

after attending Durham Academy. He received a B.S. from the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...

in 1987, where he was a Morehead-Cain Scholar. He received a Ph.D in physics from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

in 1991.

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 The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is t ...

. In 1994, he joined the physics faculty at

, becoming a full professor in 2000. In 2006, Falk became the James B. Knapp Dean at the

Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences The Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences is an academic division of the Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. The school is located on the university's Homewood campus. It is the core of Johns Hopkin ...

. From 2010 to 2017, Falk served as the 17th President of Williams College. Since the beginning of 2018, Falk has served as President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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 *Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award *Young Investigator Award, NSF *Sloan Research Fellowship *Morehead-Cain Scholar, University of North Carolina

References

External links

Office of the President webpage at Williams
1965 births Living people North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics alumni University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Williams College faculty Presidents of Williams College 21st-century American physicists Fellows of the American Physical Society {{US-physicist-stub