National Science Foundation
Tanja Pietrass currently works as a Deputy Division Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Prior to this role, she worked as the NSF Program Directory in the Chemistry Division. Tanja has been with NSF since 2008.
Tanja has also been involved with the education field as a Professor of Chemistry at New Mexico Tech from 2004-2010. She has spent about fifteen years in education since she first started as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry in 1995. Tanja earned her undergraduate, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees at the Technical University of Munich before continuing her postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley under Dr. A. Pines and at the Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France under Dr. F. Taulelle.