Michigan State University, United States
I started at DUNE working on one of the prototype detectors, called ProtoDUNE. I went to CERN to help with electronics, installation, testing and preparing the beamline for analysis. Now I’m working on actual ProtoDUNE analysis. There’s plenty to do. You can sort of be sectioned off and do your own thing, but you can also be exposed to many different projects that people are working on. Also, DUNE is a new experiment, so there are a lot of young researchers working on it. I often think back to the start of our work on ProtoDUNE as an important time when we’re developing connections with people my age on the experiment. I always liked science as a kid, and I remember always thinking that things related to outer space were the coolest, which led to an astronomy interest, which led to physics.