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Name Holly Larson Capelo
Email holly.capelo@unibe.ch

Work

  • 2018.06 - Present

    Bern, Switzerland

    Postdoctoral Researcher / Project Manager / Senior Scientist
    Physics Institute, University of Bern
    Project leader of the microgravity programme TEMPus VoLA and developer of scientific hardware for planetary-imaging activities.
  • 2012.08 - 2017.10

    Göttingen, Germany

    Doctoral Researcher
    Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation
    Experimental investigations of gas–dust interactions relevant for planet formation.
  • 2009.01 - 2010.07

    New Haven, CT, USA

    Queue Manager
    Yale University Department of Astronomy
    Managed observing schedules for the SMARTS 1.3-m telescope; processed and distributed data.
  • 2008.06 - 2008.07

    New York, NY, USA

    Research Assistant
    American Museum of Natural History – Rose Center for Earth and Space
    Cross-referenced satellite databases with a proprietary ground-based survey of the Galactic Centre (NSF REU).
  • 2007.03 - 2007.06

    Palisades, NY, USA

    Research Assistant
    CIESIN, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
    Generated ArcGIS maps of animal-species populations from NASA Earth-science data.

Education

  • 2012.10 - 2018.05

    Göttingen, Germany

    PhD
    Georg-August Universität Göttingen
    Physics
  • 2010.09 - 2012.05

    Middletown, CT, USA

    MA
    Wesleyan University
    Astronomy
  • 2005.09 - 2009.02

    New York, NY, USA

    BA
    Columbia University
    Literature and Writing
  • 2005.09 - 2009.02

    New York, NY, USA

    BSc
    Columbia University
    Astronomy

Skills

Experimental Astrophysics
Fluid mechanics
Particle-image velocimetry
Microgravity experiments
Programming & Data Analysis
Python
C/C++
IDL
MATLAB
LaTeX
Git

Languages

English
Native speaker
Italian
Proficient
German
Intermediate (B1)
French
Basic