{"id":3496,"date":"2019-05-13T14:12:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T19:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/?page_id=3496"},"modified":"2019-05-13T14:12:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T19:12:02","slug":"minerba-betancourt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/minerba-betancourt\/","title":{"rendered":"Minerba Betancourt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-6\">\n<div class=\"photoshadow\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/18-0090-42.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-6\">\n<div class=\"infobox\">\n<div class=\"infoboxtop\"><strong>Minerba Betancourt<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"infoboxmiddle\"><strong>MINERvA Experiment, Short-Baseline Neutrino program, and DUNE Near Detector<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t<strong>Fermilab, United States<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"infoboxbottom\">\n<blockquote><p>I was a high school teacher in my home country of Venezuela when I was getting my master\u2019s degree. Soon after, I moved to the United States and started my PhD. I was a theoretical physicist, but then I decided to try something new. I switched to experimental work. My first wonderful experience was installing and commissioning a huge prototype for the NOvA experiment. I\u2019m a scientist now and enjoy the research, but I also like to do outreach and teach students at the lab. I see it as a way to engage and bring in new generations of scientists that are going to help us build future experiments. I coordinate STEM outreach events for high school and middle school girls and bring in scientists from the lab to share our experiences. I am excited about building the DUNE near detector \u2013 it\u2019s going to be complex and have many challenges that I am looking forward to solving.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<div class=\"learnmore\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fnal.gov\/pub\/science\/lbnf-dune\/index.html\">Curious about the project? Learn more about DUNE, LBNF and PIP-II<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minerba Betancourt MINERvA Experiment, Short-Baseline Neutrino program, and DUNE Near Detector Fermilab, United States I was a high school teacher in my home country of Venezuela when I was getting my master\u2019s degree. Soon after, I moved to the United States and started my PhD. I was a theoretical physicist, but then I decided to&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/minerba-betancourt\/\" title=\"Minerba Betancourt\" rel=\"alternate\"> Read more &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3496","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3727,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3496\/revisions\/3727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}