Yale University, United States
I am happy to have been on DUNE since the beginning, since before DUNE was officially DUNE. It is the ultimate neutrino experiment, and I get excited every time I get to talk about it. Neutrinos are possibly the reason we exist; how can one not be totally interested in that question? I also love working with lots of different people and solving problems as a group. I love being in a meeting and watching as a new idea emerges out of a discussion amongst a group of many people thinking hard at the same time. Science at work!
When I’m not working on particle physics, I like gardening and canning. I just love living off of things that you can grow and eat. If I hadn’t been a physicist, maybe I would have been a farmer. It’s something that’s very satisfying, when you do something and you finish with a final product. It’s not quite the same with DUNE: I am sure we will be very satisfied when we finish the construction of the massive, precision DUNE detector, but then there are years of discovery beyond that when we will continue to reap the rewards of our labor.