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Professor, Fall 2020-
Interim Director of the National Latino Research Center (NLRC) at CSU San Marcos
Associate Professor, 2015-2020
Assistant Professor, 2011-2015
Physics Department
California State University, San Marcos
Visiting Scholar, 2021-
Center for Astrophysics and Space Science (CASS)
University of California, San Diego
Visiting Scholar, 2011-2013
Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
University of California, San Diego
Education
U.C. Berkeley, Ph.D., 2005, Physics
Dissertation in Experimental Astrophysics: Fluorescent Aerogels for the Capture and Identification of Hypervelocity Extraterrestrial Particles
Abstract: For my dissertation, I developed calorimetric aerogels (an ultra-low density material) for the purpose of collecting and identifying interstellar dust grains in low-Earth orbit. This work involved both the synthesis of chemically doped aerogels followed by hypervelocity projectile testing, fluorescence image analysis, and theoretical modeling of shock physics in aerogels. Advised by Prof. Buford Price and Dr. Andrew Westphal
U.C. Berkeley, M.A., 2001, Physics
U.C. Berkeley, B.A., 1998, Physics with Honors
Thesis: Use of Neural Networks for the Correction of Radiation Damage in Gamma-Ray Spectrometers
Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
CSUSM President’s Outstanding Research and Creative Activities Award (2019)
Great Minds in STEM-HENAAC, Outstanding Technical Achievement (2016)
Emerging Scholar, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education (2013)
Cozzarelli Prize, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, (2011)
NASA, Group Achievement Award, (2010)
U.C. President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship (2007-2009)
Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined offer in 2007)
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Environmental Chemistry Fellowship (2005-2007)
National Physical Science Consortium Graduate Student Fellowship (1998-2004)
NASA Graduate Student Research Fellowship (2001)
Physics Undergraduate Research Scholar, U.C. Berkeley (1998)
Chancellor’s Scholar, U.C. Berkeley (1994-1998). Awarded to top 2% of incoming freshmen
Ronald E. McNair Scholar, U.C. Berkeley (1997-1998)
Grants—External (select)
“Micro and NanoPlastic Identification in Aqueous Samples Using Nano-IR”, CSU COAST, $403,880 (awarded, 2021-2022), Principal Investigator
“Interdisciplinary Consortium for Evaluating Volatile Origins (ICE FIVE-O)”, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Solar System Exploration Virtual Institutes Program, awarded, anticipated start date of 9/1/2019 ($836,981)- Co-Investigator, Theme Lead.
“Development of NanoInfrared Spectral Mapping of Returned Samples”, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Laboratory Analysis of Returned Samples (LARS) Program, July 2019-June 2022, awarded ($1,350,795)-Principal Investigator
“Si Se Puede? to Close the Equity Gap in Engineering”, HSI-STEM Program, Department of Education, awarded September 2016 – 2021 ($6,000,000)- & Project Director ( 2016-2017).
“Resolving Astrophysical Water Formation Pathways on Dust Grain Surfaces”, National Science Foundation, RUI:Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants, July 2016-July 2019 ($298,829)-Principal Investigator
“Multi-isotopic measurements of ozone formation on interstellar dust grain analogs”, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Cosmochemistry, awarded July 2013 ($281,000), Principal Investigator
“Nanometer Scale Infrared Spectral Mapping of Amorphous and Crystalline SiO2, SiC, and Nitrile Functional Groups in Returned Samples”, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Laboratory Analysis of Returned Samples Program ($1,185,249.00), Science-PI (G. Dominguez), PI (Mark Thiemens, UCSD), Co-I (Dimitri Basov, UCSD), awarded February 2011.
Research/Scholarship/Creative Activities
Refereed Publications
Gerardo Dominguez, How Metallicity Affects Volatile Abundances: Implications for Planetary System Formation, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, , staa168, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa168, March (2020).
C. Zhu, S. Gobi, M. J. Abplanalp, R. Frigge, J.J. Gillis-Davis, G. Dominguez, K. Miljkovic, R.I. Kaiser, “Regenerative water sources on surfaces of airless bodies”, Nature Astronomy, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0900-2, (2019).
A. Westphal, J.C. Bridges, D.E. Brownlee, A. Butterworth, B.T. De Gregorio, G. Dominguez, G. Flynn, Z. Gainsforth, H.A. Ishii, D. Joswiak, L. Nittler, R.C. Ogliore, R. L. Palma, R.O. Pepin, T. Stephan, M.E. Zolensky, The Future of Stardust Science, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 52, 1858-1898 (2017).
G. Dominguez, A.S. Mcleod, Z. Gainsforth, P. Kelly, H.A. Bechtel, F. Keilmann, A. Westphal, M. Thiemens, D.N. Basov, Nanoscale infrared spectroscopy as a non-destructive probe of extraterrestrial samples, Nature Communications, 5, 5445 (2014).
A. S. McLeod, P. Kelly, M. D. Goldflam, Z. Gainsforth, A. J. Westphal, G. Dominguez, M. H. Thiemens, M. M. Fogler, D. N. Basov, Model for quantitative tip-enhanced spectroscopy and the extraction of nanoscale-resolved optical constants, Physical Review B, 90, 085136 (2014).
S. Dai, Z. Fei, Q. Ma, A. S. Rodin, M. Wagner, A. S. McLeod, M. K. Liu, W. Gannett,W. Regan, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, M. Thiemens, G. Dominguez, A. H. Castro Neto, A. Zettl, F. Keilmann, P. Jarillo-Herrero, M. M. Fogler, D. N. Basov, Tunable Phonon Polaritons in Atomically Thin van der Waals Crystals of Boron Nitride, Science, 343, 1125-1129 (2014)
M. Wagner, Z. Fei, A.S. McLeod, A.S. Rodin, W. Bao, E.G. Iwinski, Z. Zhao, M. Goldflam, M. Liu, G. Dominguez, M. Thiemens, M.M. Fogler, A.H. Castro Neto, C. N. Lau, S. Amarie, F. Keilmann, and D.N. Basov, ,NanoLetters 14, 894-900 (2014)
Z. Fei, A. S. Rodin, W. Gannett, S. Dai, W. Regan, M. Wagner, M. K. Liu, A. S. McLeod,
G. Dominguez, M. Thiemens, Antonio H. Castro Neto, F. Keilmann, A. Zettl, R. Hillenbrand, M. M. Fogler, D. N. Basov, Electronic and plasmonic phenomena at graphene grain boundaries, Nature Nanotechnology, 8, 821-825 (2013)
C. Salvo*, J. Gormally* and G. Dominguez, Simultaneous Measurement of δ2H, δ17O, and δ18O in H2O using a Commercial Cavity Ringdown Spectrometer, Analytica Chimica Acta, 804, 176-179 (2013).
S. M. Jones, M. S. Anderson, G. Dominguez, A Tsapin, Thermal calibrations of hypervelocity capture in aerogel using magnetic iron oxide particles, Icarus, 226, pp. 1-9 (2013).
Z. Fei, A. S. Rodin, G. O. Andreev, W. Bao, A. S. McLeod, M. Wagner, L. M. Zhang, Zeng Zhao, G. Dominguez, M. Thiemens, M. M. Fogler, A. H. Castro-Neto, C. N. Lau, F. Keilman, D. N. Basov, Gate-tuning of graphene plasmons revealed by infrared nano-imaging, Nature, 487, pp. 82-85 (2012).
A. Priyardarshi, J. H. Falkenthal, E. Coupal, G. Dominguez, M. H. Thiemens, Measurements of 35S in the marine boundary layer at La Jolla, California: A new technique for tracing air mass mixing during Santa Ana events, Journal of Geophysical Research, 17, D08301 (2012).
M. Thiemens, S. Chakraborty, G. Dominguez, The Physical Chemistry of Mass Independent Isotope Effects and Their Observation in Nature, Annual Reviews of Physical Chemistry, 63, 155-177 (2012).
G. Dominguez, G. Wilkins, M.H. Thiemens, Dominguez et al. reply, Nature 482, E1(2012).
L.M. Zhang, G. O. Andreev, Z. Fei, A. S. McLeod, G. Dominguez, M. Thiemens, A. H. Castro-Neto, D. N. Basov, M. M. Fogler, Near-field spectroscopy of silicon dioxide thin films, Phys. Rev. B., 85, 075419 (2012).
Donald Burnett and Genesis Science Team*, Solar Composition from the Genesis Discovery Mission, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 19147-19151 (2011).
Z. Fei, G. O. Andreev, W. Bao, L. M. Zhang, A. S. McLeod, C. Wang, M. K. Stewart, Z. Zhao, G. Dominguez, M. Thiemens, M. M. Fogler, M. Tauber, A. Castro-Neto, C. N. Lau, F. Keilmann, D. N. Basov, Infrared Nanoscopy of Dirac Plasmons at the Graphene-SiO2 interface, NanoLetters, 11, 4701-4705 (2011).
A. Priyardashi, G. Dominguez, M. Thiemens, Evidence of neutron leakage at the Fukushima nuclear plant from measurements of radioactive 35S in California, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 1442, (2011).
A. Priyardashi, G. Dominguez, J. Savarino, M. Thiemens, Cosmogenic 35S: A unique tracer to Antarctic atmospheric chemistry and the polar vortex, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, (2011)
G. Dominguez, G. Wilkins*, M. Thiemens, On the Soret Effect and Isotopic Fractionation in High-Temperature Silicate Melts, Nature, 473, 70-73, (2011).
R. Shaheen, A., Abramian*, J. Horn, G. Dominguez, R. Sullivan**, M. H. Thiemens, Detection of Oxygen Isotopic Anomaly in Terrestrial Atmospheric Carbonates and Its Implications to Mars, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 20213-20218 (2010).
G. Dominguez, A Heterogeneous Chemical Origin for the 16O-enriched and 16O-depleted Reservoirs of the Early Solar System, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 713, L59-L63 (2010).
A. Ault**, C. Gaston**, Y. Wang*, G. Dominguez, M. Thiemens, K. Prather, Characterization of the Single Particle Mixing State of Individual Ship Plume Events measured in the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Environmental Science and Technology, 44, 1954–1961 (2010).
L. Brothers**, G. Dominguez‡, A. Abramian*, A. Corbin*, B. Bluen*, and M. Thiemens, Optimized Low-Level Liquid Scintillation Spectroscopy of 35S for Atmospheric and Biogeochemical Applications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 5311-5316 (2010).
G. Dominguez, Time Evolution and Temperatures of Hypervelocity Generated Tracks in Aerogel, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 44, 1431 (2009).
G. Dominguez, G. Wilkins*, M. Thiemens, A Photochemical Model and Sensitivity Study of the Triple-Oxygen Isotopic (Δ17O) Composition of NOy, HOx, and H2O2 in a Polluted Boundary Layer, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 9, 13355-13406, (2009).
Fabian, P., Rollenbeck, R., Spichtinger, N., Brothers**, L., Dominguez, G., and Thiemens, M.: Sahara dust, ocean spray, volcanoes, biomass burning: pathways of nutrients into Andean rainforests, Advances in Geosciences, 22, 85-94, (2009).
G. Dominguez, T. Jackson, L. Brothers**, B. Nguyen*, B. Barnett*, M. Thiemens, Discovery and measurement of an isotopically distinct source of sulfate in Earth’s atmosphere, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 12769 (2008).
J. M. Trigo-Rodríguez, G. Domínguez, M. J. Burchell, F. Hörz, J. Llorca, Bulbous Tracks Arising From Hypervelocity Capture In Aerogel, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 42, 75 (2008).
M.J. Burchell, S.A.J. Fairey, P. Wozniakiewicz, D.E. Brownlee, F. Hörz, A.T. Kearsley, T.H. See, P Tsou, A. Westphal, S.F. Green S.F., J.M. Trigo-Rodríguez, G. Dominguez, Characteristics of cometary dust tracks in Stardust aerogel and laboratory calibrations, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 42, 23 (2008).
D. Brownlee, P. Tsou, J. Aleon…G. Dominguez (33rd author, alphabetical) et al. , Comet 81P/Wild 2 Under a Microscope, Science 314, 1711 (2006).
F. Hörz, R. Bastien, J. Borg, …G. Dominguez (8th author, alphabetical) et al., Impact Features on the Stardust Collector and implications for Wild 2 Coma Dust, Science, 314, 1716, (2006).
S. Brennan, K. Luening, P. Pianetta, J. Bradley, G. Graham, A. Westphal, C. Snead, G. Dominguez, Near Edge Absorption Spectroscopy of Interplanetary Dust Particles, Phys. Scripta, 2005, T115 (2005).
G. Dominguez, A.J. Westphal, M.L.F Phillips, S.M. Jones, G.A. Graham, A.T. Kearsley & G. Drolshagen, Passive Detector Technology for the Capture of Micrometeroids and Orbital Debris: Calorimetric Aerogels, Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Orbital Debris., ESA/ESOC Darmstadt Germany, 18-20th of April, (2005).
G. Dominguez, A.J. Westphal, S.M. Jones, M. L. F. Phillips, Energy Loss and Impact Cratering in Aerogels: Theory and Experiment. Icarus, v. 172, pgs. 613-624. (2004).
G.A. Graham, P.G. Grant, R.J. Chater, A.J. Westphal, A.T. Kearsley, C. Snead, G. Domínguez, A.L. Butterworth, D.S. McPhail, G. Bench, J.P. Bradley, Investigation of ion beam techniques for the analysis and exposure of particles encapsulated by silica aerogel: Applicability for Stardust. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 39, 1461-1474 (2004).
G. Domínguez, A.J. Westphal, S.M. Jones, M.L.F. Phillips, Fluorescent Impact Cavities in a Titatium Doped Al2O3-SiO2 Aerogel: Implications for the Velocity Resolution of Calorimetric Aerogels. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, v. 350C pp 385-390. (2004).
G. Domínguez, A.J. Westphal , M.L.F. Phillips, S.M. Jones, A Fluorescent Aerogel for Capture and Identification of Extraterrestrial Dust, The Astrophysical Journal, v. 592, pgs. 631-635 (2003).
Book Chapters
M. Thiemens, S. Chakraborty, G. Dominguez, The Physical Chemistry of Mass Independent Isotope Effects and Their Observation in Nature, Annual Reviews of Physical Chemistry, 63, 155-177 (2012).
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