Clara “@particleclara” Nellist scores high on TikTok

26 July 2021

Particle physicist Clara Nellist of Nikhef and Radboud University Nijmegen is currently casting a lot of steam with short selfie videos about particles and CERN on the online platform TikTok. She now has over 120 thousand followers on the social medium, which is mainly used by young people. Nellist, also known for her online excursions to the ATLAS detector in Geneva where she works as a post-doc, regularly answers questions from viewers. In her most viewed video, she shows off the blue superconducting magnets at the CERN site.