Manel Camps

Manel Camps joined UCSC in 2007 after obtaining a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford and a postdoc at the University of Washington. As Professor in  Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology at UCSC, he leads a research group whose goal is to gain a better understanding of how drug resistance evolves both at the single-protein and at the genomic levels. In 2014 he was appointed Provost of Crown College.

With the strong support of Crown alumni, Manel Camps oversaw the development of a robust educational program focused on experiential learning. This includes an entrepreneurship training program, developed in close collaboration with Nada Miljkovic, one of Crown’s lecturers. In July 2021, he was appointed Kapany Director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development (CIED), where he is working with various stakeholders to promote the entrepreneurial mindset in UCSC students and to improve the diversity and volume of career development pathways available for them.