Executive Vice President and Provost
Aaron Dominguez, Ph.D., is Executive Vice President and Provost at The Catholic University of America. In this role, he oversees the academic life of the University’s eleven schools as well as its libraries, research institutes, and the Catholic University of America Press. Dr. Dominguez is also an ordinary professor of physics. From 2016 to 2019, he served as dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. His main area of research is in using particle colliders to search for new physics, including the recently discovered Higgs boson. His area of expertise is in instrumentation — designing, building and using silicon charged particle trackers as precision tools to reconstruct the complicated interactions taking place in these collisions.
He received his undergraduate degrees from Whitman College and Caltech, his Ph.D. in physics from UC San Diego and was a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 2005, he was the recipient of the NSF CAREER award. He has held numerous leadership positions in the L3, CDF and CMS particle physics experiments at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland and Fermilab in Chicago. He is currently the vice chairman of the National Science Board of the United States of America.