Stephen Gómez, Santa Fe Community College, PI.
Stephen Gómez is a native New Mexican earning a B.S. degree in Biology from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Gomez is a two-time Ford Fellow; in biochemistry at UCLA and botany at U. of Wyoming. Currently, he is an assistant professor and Lead Faculty in Water Technologies, Algae Cultivation, and Sustainability at Santa Fe Community College. Dr. Gómez started his career in the biomedical field with appointments at the Dept. of Molecular Biotechnology, U. of Washington; Dept. of Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles; Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA; and the Respiratory Immunology and Asthma Program, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute. Before joining the faculty at SFCC in 2014, he taught at UCLA, U. of Washington, U. of Wyoming, UNM and CNM. At SFCC he has developed a college curriculum for algae cultivation under contract to the DOE/Algae Foundation and helped establish the Controlled Environment Agriculture and Distributed Energy programs. He recently completed a term as a board member for the New Mexico Academy of Science and is currently working with the NM Environment Department to create a statewide curriculum for Water Technologies and Water Conservation.