José Alfonso Soto Otón

When I was in high school, some teachers started talking about twins that would experience time differently if one was traveling around the Earth. I thought this should be wrong – how could it be right? I had to know what they were talking about. That’s what made me want to be a physicist. Now I work as an experimental physicist on the light detection system of the dual-phase DUNE Far Detector and think about how we’ll detect neutrinos. I like that neutrinos already have hints of new physics, and we know clearly that we will learn new things. We have something to build off of, but we also know there is something we don’t understand. When I’m not working on that, I like to travel, bake my own bread, and walk my sausage dog.