Ed Blucher
DUNE co-spokesperson
University of Chicago, United States

I like the outdoors, I like to run, I sail, I like to ski, but really, since DUNE has started, I’ve done very little of those. DUNE manages to consume almost all of my time. It’s a really exciting experiment and an unusual opportunity. It’s fun to build something that’s really big and that no one has done before. We’re making something that for 20 to 30 years is going to be a world-leading experiment that will give us a chance to see and learn about unexpected things. I enjoy both the scale of DUNE and the fact that this experiment has united many of the neutrino physicists around the world. It’s a group of people with an unusually international perspective, so it’s an interesting group to have conversations with about all sorts of topics. You can look around at lunch and see people from half a dozen different countries sitting at the table. That’s a unique experience that I really appreciate.