Yiota Chatzidaki
Yiota joined the Knowledge Transfer Group in October 2025 as Scientific Education Project Coordinator for the TIMEPIX@school project.
Yiota has a background in particle physics and physics education research. She first studied Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the National Technical University of Athens in Greece. During that time, she spent 7 months at CERN conducting her diploma thesis on the optics optimization of tertiary particle beamlines and on the efficiency measurement of prototype scintillating fiber detectors.
After that, she obtained a Masters in Particle Physics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. As part of her master thesis, she spent one year at CERN working on the Time Projection Chamber of the ALICE experiment, where she studied and developed algorithms to correct for the common-mode effect and the ion-tail in the signal shape. In 2022, she began her PhD in physics education research based at CERN, in affiliation with the University of Uppsala in Sweden. In her PhD project, she developed and evaluated digital learning modules (DLMs) about CERN-related physics topics and applications.