{"id":837,"date":"2018-09-19T09:06:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/?page_id=837"},"modified":"2018-09-20T11:56:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T16:56:22","slug":"varuna-meddage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/varuna-meddage\/","title":{"rendered":"Varuna Meddage"},"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\/2018\/09\/18-0096-28.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>Varuna Meddage<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"infoboxmiddle\"><strong>Graduate student working on detector simulations<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t<strong>Kansas State University, United States<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"infoboxbottom\">\n<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t think my colleagues would guess this about me, but I am actually a nature-lover. I love hiking. When I went to the DUNE collaboration last year at CERN in Switzerland, I went hiking in the Alps, and it was so beautiful. I also play sports a lot. My favorite is cricket. I was on a team back home in Sri Lanka, but it&#8217;s not very popular in the United States, so I definitely miss it. I enjoy math, and as a kid, I originally wanted to be a mathematician. But at university I learned more about physics and found that it was the perfect combination of math and science. Another thing I like about physics, and DUNE, is using novel technologies. I have the opportunity to observe and solve problems with technology that no one else has used before.<\/p><\/blockquote>\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<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Varuna Meddage Graduate student working on detector simulations Kansas State University, United States I don&#8217;t think my colleagues would guess this about me, but I am actually a nature-lover. I love hiking. When I went to the DUNE collaboration last year at CERN in Switzerland, I went hiking in the Alps, and it was so&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/varuna-meddage\/\" title=\"Varuna Meddage\" rel=\"alternate\"> Read more &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-837","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/837","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/837\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}