Adam Falk

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, where he was also a professor of physics.

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.

From the beginning of 2018 until June, 2025 Falk served as president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 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.

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