{"id":3523,"date":"2019-05-13T13:29:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T18:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/?page_id=3523"},"modified":"2019-05-13T13:29:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T18:29:07","slug":"aaron-higuera","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/aaron-higuera\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Higuera"},"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=\"http:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/18-0244-28.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>Aaron Higuera<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"infoboxmiddle\"><strong>DUNE High Energy and Nucleon Decay Group<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t<strong>University of Houston, United States<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"infoboxbottom\">\n<blockquote><p>I have a horse named Lupita. I\u2019m from Mexico, and my mom\u2019s house is close to stables, so I grew up seeing horses around. I thought that I\u2019d like to have a horse one day, and when I moved to Texas, I knew it was my opportunity. So I\u2019ll code and do physics for work and then go riding in my spare time. My work on DUNE looks at proton decay, a really rare process. It would be a great discovery if it happened, and many grand unification theories predict it. I\u2019m also involved in the ProtoDUNE data analysis. I originally entered college for engineering, but I fell in love with physics. When I went to grad school, I came to Fermilab and put my hands on a real experiment \u2013 the MINERvA experiment. I said, &#8216;This is what I want to do for the rest of my life: particle physics.&#8217;<\/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>Aaron Higuera DUNE High Energy and Nucleon Decay Group University of Houston, United States I have a horse named Lupita. I\u2019m from Mexico, and my mom\u2019s house is close to stables, so I grew up seeing horses around. I thought that I\u2019d like to have a horse one day, and when I moved to Texas,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/aaron-higuera\/\" title=\"Aaron Higuera\" 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-3523","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3523","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=3523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3658,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3523\/revisions\/3658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}