{"id":4356,"date":"2019-08-15T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/?page_id=4356"},"modified":"2019-08-16T08:51:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T13:51:30","slug":"xin-qian","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/xin-qian\/","title":{"rendered":"Xin Qian"},"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\/08\/19-0087-22.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>Xin Qian<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"infoboxmiddle\"><strong>Physicist<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t<strong>Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"infoboxbottom\">\n<blockquote><p>When I was young, I was really inspired by a biography of Albert Einstein. At that point, I didn\u2019t fully understand it, but I was fascinated by the fact that we could understand nature just through logic and thinking. Early in my career, I was making my way toward becoming a theoretical physicist, but I found myself more drawn to technology and experimental technique. For DUNE, I work on event reconstruction and detector optimization. The liquid-argon time projection chamber technology we\u2019re working on is very innovative and challenging. The primary physics goal of DUNE could be the next major discovery of neutrino physics. It\u2019s an open field, one where you can make your mark. I think that\u2019s one of the reasons I\u2019m interested in this. I only started working on liquid argon about four or five years ago. Before that I knew almost nothing about this technology and now I\u2019m a semi-expert. It just goes to show that if you\u2019re interested in something and spend time on it, you can become an expert.<\/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>Xin Qian Physicist Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States When I was young, I was really inspired by a biography of Albert Einstein. At that point, I didn\u2019t fully understand it, but I was fascinated by the fact that we could understand nature just through logic and thinking. Early in my career, I was making my&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/xin-qian\/\" title=\"Xin Qian\" 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-4356","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4356","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=4356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4718,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4356\/revisions\/4718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}