Adam Falk

Adam Frederick Falk (born April 19, 1965) is the president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Earlier in his career, Falk was the president of Williams College, a university administrator at Johns Hopkins University, and a theoretical physicist. Early life and education Falk is a native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He graduated from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics after attending Durham Academy. He received a B.S. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1987, where he was a Morehead-Cain Scholar. He received a Ph.D in physics from Harvard University 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. In 1994, he joined the physics faculty at Johns Hopkins University, becoming a full professor in 2000.