At age 9, Gael Flores came to the U.S. from Mexico. He later worked at McDonald’s, then got a job at a sheet metal factory. Listening to Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time” reshaped his future. The recent UC Berkeley grad now hunts neutrinos as part of the Lab’s DUNES research team. https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/05/13/student-gael-flores-on-his-journey-from-sheet-metal-worker-to-physicist/
January 2019 – July 2022
