Season 2 Episode 6  
I am a Romanian-born German-Swiss astroparticle physicist and I also enjoy reading poetry, hiking and kayaking on Swiss lakes. My research is focused on the direct detection of particle dark matter with xenon time projection chambers and on the search for neutrinoless double beta decay with enriched germanium crystals operated in liquid argon. I love the fact that these rare-event searches pose formidable challenges to our detector technologies, requiring new detector prototypes that we must develop and test in the lab. I also enjoy working with many enthusiastic researches in our international  experimental collaborations. To me Snowmass is a very important grass-roots process in particle and  astroparticle physics, not only relevant for USA, but with international relevance and implications. I am also excited to be one of the  conveners for the Underground Facilities Frontier.  
My Journey as a Physicist is brought to you by PhD student Bryan Stanley (he/him/his) and Prof. Huey-Wen Lin (she/her). Season 2 is edited by Varalee Sakorikar.  
Season 2 consists of members of the Particle Physics Community Planning Exercise known as Snowmass.  
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