Yun-Tse Tsai

I feel amazed and inspired to see how people explore and advance our knowledge from what we know into what we didn’t know. When I was a kid in Taiwan, I knew I wanted to be a scientist, but at that time I probably had the wrong idea of what a scientist did. I thought they would try to figure out new knowledge, but I didn’t know so much about research. I learned how to be a scientist during my PhD working on collider experiments, and later switched to neutrino physics. Currently I’m working on some studies for physics beyond the Standard Model using DUNE, the fancy neutrino detector that will have unprecedented precision and capability to characterize the activity inside the detector. I’m positive that we will see something new using the detector, because it’s more powerful than previous detectors to these unknown things we’re looking for. Those unknowns are what excite and motivate me.