Adam Frederick Falk (born April 19, 1965) is the president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

[3] He graduated from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics after attending Durham Academy.

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 2006, Falk became the James B. Knapp Dean at the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.

[5] 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.