Laurent Simard
Physicist
LAL Orsay and Paris-Sud University, France

I play saxophone in a group with guitars, bass, piano, drums, violin and singers. Until now, we’ve performed at the university or at meetings. I’ve been interested in neutrino physics for a long time, and I just joined the DUNE collaboration. Understanding the mass ordering of the neutrinos and discovering what role neutrinos play in the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe is very exciting. To me that is the most interesting physics in the coming years. I started my research career as a Ph.D. student on the DELPHI experiment on the LEP collider at CERN. Recently I’ve been working on the SuperNEMO experiment, studying neutrinoless double beta decays to understand the nature of the neutrino. I will be contributing to the readout chimneys for the DUNE dual-phase detector. Getting your first data from a new experiment is the most exciting time.