Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU). Her current research focus is on data-intensive systems and applications, with an emphasis on managing large-scale heterogeneous spatial data for emerging applications in data science and machine learning.

Before joining ITU, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Berlin (TUB) and a junior fellow at the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD). She earned her PhD in 2019 from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where she was advised by Prof. Anastasia Ailamaki. During her doctoral studies, she also spent four months as a visiting researcher at New York University (NYU) with Prof. Juliana Freire. Her dissertation research focused on query processing for spatial and temporal data exploration. She obtained a Diploma M.Eng. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2013. 

For more information about Eleni, see her personal website and her online CV.