Adam Frederick Falk (born April 19,1965) is an American physicist who has been president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 2018. He was previously the president of Williams College from 2010 to 2017 and formerly the dean of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University,[1] where he was also a professor of physics.
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.
From 2010 to 2017,Falk served as the 17th President of Williams College.[4]
From the beginning of 2018 until June,2025 Falk served as president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.[5] As of July,2025,he is the president and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society.
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.
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