1. PAPADOPOULOU AFRODITI CV
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name: Papadopoulou Afroditi Telephone: +1 857-756-0469
Date of Birth: 07.07.1993 E-mail: afropapp@yahoo.gr, apapadop@mit.edu
SECONDARY EDUCATION
 2004: Prize offered by the Ministry of Education while being in the 5th
grade of
primary school for the best painting in my region depicting the spirit of the Olympic
Games 2004 and promoting friendship
 2005-2008: Honor / excellence certificates from the Ministry of Education during
Junior High School for having excellent / highest marks
 June 2008: Graduation from 1st
Junior High School of Kessariani (Athens,Greece) with
grade 20 out of 20
 2008-2011: Honor / excellence certificates from the Ministry of Education during
High School for having excellent / highest marks
 June 2011: Graduation from 1st
High School of Kessariani (Athens, Greece) with grade
19.6 out of 20. Participated in the final examination with grade 19,121 out of
20,000, 2nd
highest mark among all students of my school
UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
 07/10/2011 – 25/6/2016: Student at National Kapodistrian University in Athens in
Physics Faculty, 2nd
best student in my year with average grade 9.09 out of 10.00
under the supervision of Professor Paraskevas Sphicas.
 Undergraduate thesis: W polarization and angular coefficients at high energy
proton-proton collisions at the LHC CERN
POSTGRADUATE STUDIES
 1st
of July 2016: enrolled at MIT as a summer starter under the supervision of Janet
Conrad and Or Hen
WORKING EXPERIENCE
 CERN: 22.7.2015 - 31.8.2015, 27.11.2015 – 12.12.2015, 29.2.2016 - 19.3.2016 under
the supervision of Markus Stoye (a CERN research staff member on the CMS
experiment) and professor Paraskevas Sphicas
 Fermilab: 1-3.8.2016 under the supervision of Or Hen, Gabriel Perdue, Steve Dytman
SCHOLARSHIPS / FELLOWSHIPS
 2013: DAAD Scholarship for participation in the International Summer School at
Heidelberg University 3-31 August 2013
 2014: Scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation for being the 2nd
best
student for the academic year 2011-2012
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2.  2015: Partial Scholarship from the University of Savoie Mont Blanc in order to
participate in the Summer School in Particle and Astroparticle Physics of Annecy-le-
Vieux 16-22 July 2015 (LAPP, LAPTh, University of Savoie Mont Blanc)
 2016 -2017: 1 year fellowship from the Division of Physics at MIT
PRESENTATIONS
 “Construction of the color wave functions of the mesons and the bosons” under the
supervision of professor Fotis Diakonos and professor Konstantinos Sfetsos (NKUA)
 “Alpha decay” under the supervision of professor Efstathios Styliaris (NKUA)
POSTERS
 “Correlated Fermi Gas Model”: National Nuclear Physics Summer School (MIT, July
18-29 2016)
WORKSHOPS
 Frontiers & Careers 2016: 4-7 August 2016, University of New Hampshire, Durham
CONFERENCES
 Gordon Research Conference (GRC): “New Trends in Probing Quark-Gluon
Dynamics”, 7-12 August 2016, Holderness School, Holderness, NH
EXCHANGE PROGRAMS
 Participated in Youth exchanges with 38 young people from Italy, Slovakia, Greece,
Turkey, Lithuania, Estonia. The activity took place from 21/7/2009 to 31/7/2009 in
Otepaa, Estonia
SEMINARS ATTENDED
 51 seminars organized by CERN
 International European Program “Discover the Cosmos” on 14.04.2013 organized by
Christina Kourkoumeli, professor at the University of Athens, Athens
 Participated in 20 seminars organized by the Hellenic Amateur Astronomy
Association during the period November 2013-May 2014, Athens
 Xmas Theoretical Physics Workshop @Athens 2014 organized by Prof. Konstantinos
Sfetsos (University of Athens) and Dr. Dimitrios Zoakos (Universidade do Porto) on
the 19th
of December 2014, Athens
 Lahanas Fest 2015 : "Standard Model and Beyond - Unscaling SUSY", Workshop in
Honor of Professor Athanasios Lahanas, 9th
of January 2015, Athens
 HEP 2015 - Conference on Recent Developments in High Energy Physics and
Cosmology 15-18 April 2015, Athens, Greece
 Seminar by Tommaso Dorigo (university of Padova) on 27.4.15 “The importance of
Statistics in High-Energy Physics”, University of Athens
 François Englert's speech (Nobel prize 2013) for celebrating 15 years of the
foundation of the School of Applied Physics and Maths of the National Technical
University of Athens (NTUA)
 Attended all the seminars of the CERN Summer School 2015 from the 27th
of July
until the 6th
of August, CERN, Geneva
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3.  “100 years since the advent of the General Theory of Relativity” organized by the
Hellenic Society on Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology on the 25th
of November
2015, Athens, Plato's Academy
 Xmas Theoretical Physics Workshop @Athens 2015 organized by Prof. Konstantinos
Sfetsos (University of Athens) and Dr. Dimitrios Zoakos (Universidade do Porto) on
the 21st
and the 22nd
of December 2015, Athens
 “Breaking the information code of the black holes” by Dimitri Nanopoulos on
13.1.2016, University of Athens
 “Gravitational waves: We can now hear the melody of the world” by
Theocharis Apostolatos (NKUA) on the 23rd
of February 2016, Athens
Planetarium, Athens, Greece
VOLUNTEER WORK
 Offered free lectures for high school pupils (Algebra, Geometry, Physics, Chemistry)
during the academic year 2012-2013
 Hardware / software support offered to the Senior’s Center in my home city
(Kessariani, Athens)
Edx COURSES AND CERTIFICATES
 AdelaideX: HumBio101x Essential Human Biology: Cells and Tissues
 ANUx: ANU-ASTRO1x Greatest Unsolved Mysteries of the Universe
 ANUx: ANU-ASTRO2x Exoplanets
 ANUx: ANU-ASTRO3x The Violent Universe
 ANUx: ANU-ASTRO4x Cosmology
 BerkeleyX: ColWri3.2x "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Twain
 ColgateX: GW101x Greeks at War: Homer at Troy
 Cornellx: ENGRI1210x The Computing Technology Inside Your Smartphone
 CornellX: HIST1514x American Capitalism: A History
 DelftX: TPM1x Creative Problem Solving and Decision Making
 DelftX: ET3034x Solar Energy
 DelftX: TP101x The Basics of Transport Phenomena
 EPFLx: PlasmaX Plasma Physics and Applications
 EPFLx: NMR101x Basic Steps in Magnetic Resonance
 HarvardX: SPU30x Super-Earths and Life
 HarveyMuddX: CS002x Programming in Scratch
 HarveyMuddX: CS001x MyCS: Computer Science for Beginners
 Linux Foundation LFS101x: Introduction to Linux
 Microsoft: CLD201x Introduction to Office 365 Development and APIs
 Microsoft: DAT208x Introduction to Python for Data Science
 MITx: 24.118x Paradox and Infinity
 MITx: 8.MechCx Introductory Physics: Classical Mechanics
 MIT 6.00.1x: Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python
 MIT 3.091x: Introduction to Solid State Chemistry
 MIT 11.127x: Design and Development of Games for Learning
 MITx: 18.01.1x Calculus 1A: Differentiation
 MITx: 8.05.1x Mastering Quantum Mechanics Part I: Wave Mechanics
 MITx: 8.05.2x Mastering Quantum Mechanics Part 2: Quantum Dynamics
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4.  MITx: 8.05.3x Mastering Quantum Mechanics Part 3: Entanglement and Angular
Momentum
 NotreDameX: MAT150x Math in Sports
 OECx: RADIO101x Effects of Radiation: An Introduction to Radiation and Radioactivity
 Rice Phys102x: Electricity and Magnetism
Future Learn COURSES AND CERTIFICATES
 The Discovery of the Higgs Boson , University of Edinburgh
 Understanding IELTS, British Council
 Football, University of Edinburgh
 The Science of Nuclear Energy, The Open University
Coursera COURSES AND CERTIFICATES
 University of Maryland: Exploring Quantum Physics
 University of Tokyo: From the Big Bang to Dark Energy
Mathesis COURSES AND CERTIFICATES
 Phys1.1 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics-1: Basic principles (University of Creta)
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
 English C2 (Michigan ECPE, TOEFL, GRE General, GRE Subject)
 German B2 (Goethe Zertifikat)
SUMMER SCHOOLS
 International Summer School at Heidelberg University 3-31 August 2013 with grade
“Excellent”
 Summer School in Particle and Astroparticle Physics of Annecy-le-Vieux 16-22 July
2015 (LAPP, LAPTh, University of Mont Blanc)
 National Nuclear Physics Summer School 18-29 July 2016 (MIT)
SPORT ACTIVITIES
Tennis: local tournaments : 1st place period 1999-2000
1st place period 2000-2001
1st place period 2001-2002
3rd place period 2002-2003
5 km running: local tournaments : 3rd place 2006
3rd place 2007
3rd place 2008
Participated in the 5 km race for the Marathon on 4/11/2007 and in the 10km race on the
8/11/2015
Cambridge MA, 5th of August 2016
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