Keck Graduate Institute recently named Angelika Niemz as dean of the school’s Henry E. Riggs School of Applied Life Sciences. She will oversee KGI’s largest school of programs.

“I am honored to have the opportunity to contribute to KGI in this new leadership role,” Niemz wrote in a statement. “I have witnessed KGI grow and evolve over the past decades, and I want to do my part in ensuring that our institute fulfills its mission and maintains the spirit that makes us unique.”

Niemz began as an assistant professor at KGI in 2002. She had been a professor and the Rigg School’s Associate Dean of Faculty since 2022.