CERN, Switzerland
I’ve loved computer science since I was 14 years old, and I never really wanted to make money but to contribute to science. More than half of the DUNE collaboration probably thinks I’m a physicist instead of a computer scientist. At a previous collaboration meeting in the U.S., I gave a plenary talk about my work. I was back home in Spain, so I videoconferenced in. I had played soccer earlier that day and injured my hamstring. Since I was seven time zones over and it was nighttime in Spain, I gave my talk in my pajamas and with ice on my hamstring and the camera was focused on my slides. Eventually I visited Fermilab and saw the [830-seat] auditorium that was the location of the big presentation that I videoconferenced to from Spain—and now I realize how big my audience was!