Ana Paula Werneck Capuano, MS PhD

Dr. Capuano is a professor of Biostatistics in the departments of Neurology of the University of Chicago. She is also a visiting scholar at Harvard University. She is the director of the Biostatistics Core of the SuperAging Initiative at the HAAC Center at the University of Chicago. She is the former Leader of the Rush ADRC DMS Core. Biostatistician by training, Dr. Capuano's methodological developments include metrics of resilience and proposed models for ordinal, discrete and nonlinear longitudinal data. A lot of her methodological developments are available in her R package NLIVE. For almost two decades she collaborates with scientists around the globe to answer questions that can improve the human health, specially through the understanding of healthy aging through the interplay of behavior, genetics and environmental exposures.



Professor Capuano is the founder of ARISE (Aging Research – Innovations in Statistical Exploration), housed by American Statistics Association SDSA, designed to spotlight promising students and early-career researchers working at the intersection of data science and aging. She serves as the elected educational chair of American Statistics Association SDSA, elected chair of the NACC Steering Committee, served for 8 years on the executive committee of the Design and Data Analytics PIA of ISTAART and is the newly elected vice-chair of Elevate Early Career Researchers (PEERs) PIA.



In addition to the extensive scientific contributions, Professor Capuano is dedicated to train the next generation of scientists and build a strong and ethic scientific community that advances the human health conditions so we all can live long, productive and fulfilling lives. She has designed several courses and symposiums around the globe, in institutions such as Stanford University, Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, the University of New South Wales in Australia, the University of Costa Rica, among others. She has mentored several early career scientists from highschoolers to early career professors.