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About me

I am a physicist doing research in gravitational-wave astronomy. I am the High Performance Computing Facilitator for the Center for Computing and Data Science Research at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. I am also an Affiliate Faculty in the Physics and Math departments at UMass Dartmouth. Previously, I was a senior research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover, Germany. I received my bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. in physics from Syracuse University. My research is focused on analyzing gravitational waves from black holes and neutron stars. Through these observations I hope to answer fundamental questions about the universe, such as: What happens near a black hole? What does matter do under extremely high pressures?

When not doing physics, I enjoy running and hiking (if you couldn’t tell from the pictures). My love for the outdoors stems from growing up in Corinth, NY — a small town in the Adirondack mountains of upstate New York. I am also a history buff, a bit of a news junkie, and love anything aerospace related (I even named my cat Apollo).

Here you can find more information about my research, my CV, and how to contact me.

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Diagram of the evolution of the universe. Image credit: NASA/WMAP Science Team - Original version: NASA; modified by Cherkash, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11885244

Contact

High Performance Computing Facilitator
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
285 Old Westport Road
Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300
USA

ccapano[at]umassd.edu
collin.capano[at]aei.mpg.de
0000-0002-0355-5998
collin-capano

Senior Scientist
Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik
Callinstraße 38
30167 Hannover
Germany