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.