Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications (IASA)

Christine Kourkoumelis is an Emeritus Particle Physics Professor of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece and member of IASA’s Board. She holds a Ph.D from Yale University and is actively involved in research at National (U.S.A.) and International Particle Physics laboratories. At the NKUA she is teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as, supervises several PhD students. At CERN, for the last 20 years, she is a member of the giant ATLAS experiment and contributed both in the hardware instrumentation as well as in the physics analysis (discovery of the Higgs Boson, search of new Heavy Bosons). 
She has around 1110 publications in international physics journals with more than 149,000 citations, in the 2018 Webometrics list for Highly Cited Researches (h>100) she was 217st in the world.  She has given more than 20 invited talks in international conferences.
In parallel to her research, she is heavily involved in outreach activities for the popularization and dissemination of HEP in schools. She has participated in eight European outreach programs funded within FP6/FP7/Erasmus+/Horizon 2020, two of which she coordinated. She has co-authored the ATLAS interactive event analysis program, the so-called HYPATIA (HYbrid Pupil's Analysis Tool for Interactions in ATLAS). HYPATIA is used every year, since 2011, by thousands of students participating in the International Masterclasses. She has also been the ATLAS Outreach Coordinator for two years during the excitement of the Higgs discovery and in July 2011 she was awarded the EPS (European Physical Society) outreach prize for outstanding outreach achievement.

Stelios Vourakis holds an M.Sc. in Electronic Automation with specialization in Information Technology and a Bachelor’s in Physics, both from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Since 2006 he has worked as a researcher in a series of national and EU funded projects in the departments of Informatics and Physics of the NKUA (Rhetor, Mnisiklis, Learning with ATLAS@CERN, Pathway to inquiry based science education, Discover the COSMOS, Go-Lab, Inspiring science education, Creations and Frontiers). He is the developer of the HYPATIA event display used by thousands of students worldwide during the International Physics Masterclasses and various events throughout Greece.

Stelios Angelidakis is an experimental particle physicist with large experience in physics research at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of CERN, and substantial skills in the design and development of analog processing circuits, digital signal processing and particle-track reconstruction. He is a member of the ATLAS collaboration (since 2012), and co-author of more than 690 publications in international science and instrumentation journals. His research has been focused on studies of the Higgs sector of the Standard Model as well as on searches for new-physics hypotheses. Furthermore, he has worked on the optimization of the performance of the Muon Spectrometer of the ATLAS detector, and has provided major contributions in the upgrade of the hadronic calorimeter of ATLAS, which is required for the future high-luminosity phase of the LHC.
In parallel to the above work, Dr. Angelidakis has been continuously involved in outreach projects for the dissemination of high-energy physics to the general public. He has contributed, as either a speaker or instructor, in numerous Masterclass courses of the International Particle Physics Outreach Group at the Universities of Athens and Crete (Greece), and the Clermont Auvergne University (France), and has conducted multiple local outreach seminars in remote regions of Greece. In the period 2011-2013, he was also hired by the EU project “PATHWAY” to train high-school teachers in interactive software and didactic approaches, for the introduction of scientific research in schools.

Dimitris Fassouliotis is associate professor at the University of Athens. He holds a PhD in elementary particle physics from NTUA (1994). Since 1998 he has been teaching undergraduate and graduate physics courses at the NKUA. Since 1989, he is participating in research activities in experimental high energy physics, first as a member of the DELPHI collaboration and later as a member of the ATTLAS collaboration at CERN. He has co-authored more than 1000 publications in the top refereed journals of his field, with more than 120,000 citations. He has given 19 invited talks given at international conferences and workshops and he has been member of the organizing committee of five international workshops. In DELPHI, he has worked mainly on precision measurements in the electroweak sector. In ATLAS, he was mainly involved in the discovery of the Higgs boson and the measurement of its properties, but also in the search for BSM physics. He has also participated in the construction of the muon spectrometer of the ATLAs detector and the development of gas micropatern detectors for its upgrade. Since 2005, Dr Fassouliotis is continuously participating in outreach activities in physics for high school students.