{"id":4329,"date":"2019-08-15T16:34:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T21:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/?page_id=4329"},"modified":"2019-08-16T08:51:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T13:51:17","slug":"nicola-mcconkey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/nicola-mcconkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicola McConkey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nicola McConkey<\/strong><\/div>\n
DUNE scientist and co-lead for detector assembly and installation of the Short-Baseline Near Detector at Fermilab<\/strong>
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When I\u2019m not doing physics, I play folk music and I dance. When I travel places, I don\u2019t go without my violin. It\u2019s funny, because it\u2019s such an intrinsic part of me, I forget that not everyone knows that I play \u2013 I feel like it\u2019s written all over me. I was standing at the home of the ProtoDUNE detector at CERN when I got into a conversation with some colleagues who had been chatting with someone I jam with. They asked if I had my violin, and I said, ‘Of course, it\u2019s back where I\u2019m staying.’ And he said, ‘Do you want to bring it in tomorrow and give us a concert?’ I brought my violin in the next day, and I was thinking as I was cycling in that I really hoped they weren\u2019t joking, because I wasn\u2019t! I didn\u2019t want to disturb people or make a big fuss about it, so I felt a bit shy. At lunchtime, when no one was working, I got suited up and went inside the ProtoDUNE cryostat and played for my friends. Wearing the cleanroom suit to play was very warm, but it was really cool to hear the acoustics. It was amazing – it was like my two worlds collided. I was playing music inside of a particle detector.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n

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":"

Nicola McConkey DUNE scientist and co-lead for detector assembly and installation of the Short-Baseline Near Detector at Fermilab University of Manchester, United Kingdom When I\u2019m not doing physics, I play folk music and I dance. When I travel places, I don\u2019t go without my violin. It\u2019s funny, because it\u2019s such an intrinsic part of me,… Read more »<\/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-4329","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4329","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=4329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4727,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4329\/revisions\/4727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}