Andy Furmanski
Postdoctoral researcher
University of Manchester, United Kingdom

I used to work on the T2K experiment in Japan, and while I was there I climbed Mount Fuji. It was great – until you get 200 yards from the top and you join the queue, because everyone climbs it to watch sunrise from the top. Now I spend most of my time working on the MicroBooNE experiment, which has a lot of overlap with ProtoDUNE, where I worked on construction and commissioning of the detector. One thing I really like about DUNE is being part of such a long-term project. Everyone is coming together to reach some end goal that requires everyone. No country or institution could do it by themselves. You need to have thousands of people and a decade or more. It’s nice to be part of something that big.