Katherine Kantardjieff: New Dean at CalState San Marcos

Katherine Kantardjieff is the new dean of the College of Science and Mathematics at California State University San Marcos. She was a professor and chair of the department of chemistry at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. She also was director of the Keck Foundation Center for Molecular Structure at the university. Prior to joining the faculty at Cal Poly in 2009, she taught at California State University Fullerton for more than two decades. She is currently chair of the United States National Committee for Crystallography at the National Academy of Sciences.

Dean Kantardjieff is a graduate of the University of Southern California. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California Los Angeles.