Dylan Domaille joined the faculty at the Department of Chemistry at the Colorado School of Mines as an assistant professor during the fall of 2017 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2023. He received his B.S. degrees in chemistry and
molecular and cell biology from the University of Oregon and earned his Ph.D. in chemistry in the chemical biology program from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked to develop small-molecule fluorescent sensors for tracking intracellular metal ions in living cells. He continued his studies as a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Chemical Engineering at CU Boulder, where he expanded his research to include M13 bacteriophage-based biosensors, stress-relaxing hydrogel 3D cell matrices, and biocompatible chemical processes. He was recognized with an Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young
Investigator award (2022), an NSF CAREER award (2023), and a Mines Teaching Award (2025). His lab’s research is focused on biocompatible chemistry for biomass conversion, dynamic covalent soft materials to aid in wound healing, and self-immolative probes for tracking proteins involved in oxidative biology.
