Adam Burrows is a Full Professor in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. He received his undergraduate degree from the Princeton Physics department and his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently the Vice-Chair of the National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy (BPA), the BPA Liaison to the U.S. Decadal Survey Committee, a member of the AURA board, and on the Board of Trustees of the Aspen Center for Physics. In the past, he served as the Chair of the Advisory Board of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Phtysics (KITP) (2006-2007), as the co-Chair of the NASA Universe Subscommittee (2004-2005), as the Chair of the NASA Origins Subcommittee (2004-2005), and as the Chair of the Theoretical Astrophysics Program of the University of Arizona (1992-2000), where he was a professor until January 2008.