Dr. Tanski earned his A.B. in chemistry from Vassar College in 1995. He received a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2000, after working in the field of inorganic chemistry with Peter T. Wolczanski. After completing a postdoctoral appointment with Gerard Parkin at Columbia University, Dr. Tanski spent time as a substitute assistant professor at the City University of New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice before returning to Vassar in 2003.
Currently, Dr. Tanski is serving as Chair-elect of the Mid-Hudson Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS). At Vassar, Dr. Tanski is the Director of the Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI), serves as a member of the Pre-Medical Advisory Committee, and is the Principal Investigator on a grant from the National Science Foundation supporting a single crystal X-ray diffraction facility.