University of Sussex, United Kingdom
We’re testing DUNE photon detection systems in the Short-Baseline Near Detector at Fermilab. My first day here at Fermilab was six years ago. I was an undergrad, and I was looking for my supervisor’s office. I’d just come from the airport and was still dragging around my suitcase. I heard someone call my name. It was a real surprise: It was an Italian student I knew who was here for just a short while, visiting from Germany, doing his Master’s. I’ve experienced this a number of times since then. In school, I liked how physics could explain very clearly the natural world. Very simple stuff: blue skies, music, rainbows, your everyday natural phenomena. Outside of research, I like to cycle, swim in the sea, hike and camp. In Brighton, where I live now, there’s a sea. And when I was in Mexico, I liked to go hiking to volcanoes and mountains.