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Basics
| Name | Holly Larson Capelo |
| holly.capelo@unibe.ch |
Work
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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
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2012.10 - 2018.05 Göttingen, Germany
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2010.09 - 2012.05 Middletown, CT, USA
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2005.09 - 2009.02 New York, NY, USA
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2005.09 - 2009.02 New York, NY, USA
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 |