Luisa Capannolo

I am originally from a small town in Italy, just a couple of hours East from Rome called L’Aquila. Once I obtained a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Physics and Space Physics at the University of L’Aquila, I moved to the US in 2014 to start my PhD at BU. Here, I have worked on modeling coronal mass ejection under the guidance of Prof. Opher, and I am currently in Prof. Wen Li’s research group studying the electron precipitation in the upper atmosphere driven by plasma waves in Earth’s magnetosphere. My work focuses more on analyzing data, taken from a variety of spacecraft, both high-budget missions (such as the Van Allen Probes and POES) and low-budget ones (like FIREBIRD and AC6 cubesats).

Research interests: space physics, magnetospheres, wave/particle interactions, solar physics, cubesats

Website: http://blogs.bu.edu/luisacap/