Carmen Domingo became the dean of the College of Science and Engineering at San Francisco State University in 2019, marking historic milestone as the first women and Latina to hold this position. She oversees the largest college at the university, serving over 7000 majors.
Joining SF State as an assistant professor of Biology in 1997, Carmen later served as associate chair of Biology from 2007 to 2015 and was the interim dean in 2017. An expert in vertebrate embryology, she has taught and mentored hundreds of students in both the classroom and research lab, many of whom have pursued excellent Ph.D. programs and careers in biomedical sciences.
Carmen has secured numerous grants from the National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation, California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, private foundations and non-profit organizations. These grants support her research activities, student training, STEM training efforts, and professional development opportunities for faculty. In 2018 she was elected as a California Academy of Sciences fellow. Recently, she oversaw the construction of a $150M 125,000 sq. ft. all-electric science and engineering building dedicated to advancing STEM teaching and research.
Carmen earned her Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from UC Berkeley in 1995. She was a recipient of a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship from 1995 to 1997 in the Integrative Biology Department at UC Berkeley.