Francesca Stocker
PhD student
University of Bern, Switzerland

I love that every day at work, I get to speak in at least three of my four languages. I speak Italian, French, German, and English. I work full-time at CERN on the ProtoDUNE detector. I had a background in building small liquid-argon detectors, so it was nice to build the biggest one ever made. I worked on the field cage, the high voltage system, and then commissioning and running the detector. It was nice to see the baby come alive and see some data. We’re pushing the boundaries of knowledge on every side, and all the limits on technology. I like the environment of research and academia and always being able to learn new things. You never have a day the same as yesterday.