Francesca Capel
Minerva Fast Track Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Physics
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolFrancesca Capel is a physicist and Minerva Fast Track Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Physics with nine years' experience applying instrumentation, simulation, and advanced statistical methods across plasma physics, particle physics, and astrophysics. She earned a PhD from KTH after a First Class Master's from Imperial College and has combined hands-on lab work—calibrating miniaturised radiation monitors at ESA and probing tokamak plasmas at EPFL—with data-driven research at TUM's ORIGINS Data Science Lab. Her work bridges experiment and computation: she runs charged-particle simulations, analyzes beamline and probe data, and develops statistical approaches to extract subtle signals from complex datasets. Based in Munich, she brings a practical experimental instinct to theoretical problems, and maintains an active interest in astrophysics and statistics beyond the lab.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree, Physics, First Class Honours, Master's degree, Physics, First Class Honours at Imperial College London
English, French, Dutch, German, Swedish
Github Skills (71)
instrumentation10
cpp10
bayesian-inference10
particle-physics10
monorepo10
julia10
hypothesis-testing10
bayesian10
icecube10
wrapper10
simulation10
extraction10
sampling9
python9
clustering9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cescalara/association
Jun 2018 - Feb 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 8 months
cescalara/popsynth
May 2020 - Jul 2024
A generic flux/parameter 1D population synthesis code
Contributions:18 PRs, 81 pushes, 19 branches in 4 years 2 months
population-synthesissynthesisparametergenericflux
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