Adam Falk

Adam Falk
Falk in 2010
17th President of Williams College
In office
April 1, 2010 – December 31, 2017
Preceded by William G. Wagner
Personal details
Alma mater UNC–Chapel Hill
Harvard University

Adam Falk served as the 17th President of Williams College, Massachusetts, USA,[1] and Professor of Physics. He is currently President of the Sloan Foundation.[2]

Early life and education

Falk (born April 19, 1965) grew up on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), where his father Werner chaired the Philosophy Department. Falk graduated from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (1983), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1987), and holds a Ph.D in physics from Harvard University.

Academic career

Falk joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University in 1994, after time as a post-doc. He became full professor in 2000. He later served as the James B. Knapp Dean at the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University from 2005. He joined Williams College in 2010. In June 2017, Falk announced his departure from Williams at the end of 2017; in 2018, he became the President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.[3]

Personal life

He has several siblings including an older brother, Jim Falk, also a physicist and former university leader, in Melbourne, Australia.

Contributions

Falk is a high-energy physicist whose research focuses on elementary particle physics and quantum field theory, particularly the interactions and decay of heavy quarks. Some of his work is cited over 700 times - for example;

Awards

  • Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award.
  • 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. ↑ https://president.williams.edu/letters-from-the-president/an-important-message-to-the-williams-community/


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