{"id":5324,"date":"2019-11-04T12:26:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T18:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/?page_id=5324"},"modified":"2019-11-04T12:26:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T18:26:12","slug":"maria-manrique-plata","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/maria-manrique-plata\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Manrique Plata"},"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\/11\/19-0086-28.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>Maria Manrique Plata<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"infoboxmiddle\"><strong>Graduate student<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t<strong>Indiana University, United States<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"infoboxbottom\">\n<blockquote><p>I am a space nerd, especially when it comes to rockets. When I decided to let go of aerospace engineering, I kept in contact with all of my friends, and they send me rocket designs just for fun. I liked math, but physics was the perfect combo of abstract and still usable \u2013 a little bit of both worlds. Right now I\u2019m starting to work on the photon detector system for ProtoDUNE; that means doing some calibrations, looking at background noise, and trying to better understand rates in the detector. I\u2019m getting my feet wet! I like the freedom. Every single question I had as I child, I can get answers to. Physics is a grown-up playground.<\/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>Maria Manrique Plata Graduate student Indiana University, United States I am a space nerd, especially when it comes to rockets. When I decided to let go of aerospace engineering, I kept in contact with all of my friends, and they send me rocket designs just for fun. I liked math, but physics was the perfect&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/maria-manrique-plata\/\" title=\"Maria Manrique Plata\" 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-5324","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5324","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=5324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5516,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5324\/revisions\/5516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}