Maria Manrique Plata

I am a space nerd, especially when it comes to rockets. When I decided to let go of aerospace engineering, I kept in contact with all of my friends, and they send me rocket designs just for fun. I liked math, but physics was the perfect combo of abstract and still usable – a little bit of both worlds. Right now I’m starting to work on the photon detector system for ProtoDUNE; that means doing some calibrations, looking at background noise, and trying to better understand rates in the detector. I’m getting my feet wet! I like the freedom. Every single question I had as I child, I can get answers to. Physics is a grown-up playground.