Nikhef, Netherlands
I used to do a little bit of paragliding. My father was an instructor, so I was fortunate to fly a bunch. I didn’t continue it for long, because it takes a lot of effort in the Netherlands – it is difficult to get up high. From a very young age I was very interested in the way things work. I thought about how random processes in nature occur, and I thought, if I’m going to be thinking about it anyway, I might as well make it my job. Now I think about how processes occur every day, and it’s great. I work on the event reconstruction from neutrino interactions. It means looking at particle showers and trying to trace them back to a single point, and trying to unmask the neutrino imposters. I like my work because I do a lot of intuitive things, and it’s very geometrical. There’s a nice feedback to the work.