Job opportunities

Our team is highly international and enthusiastic. We are working on complex and different subjects, with the main common research on the cosmic rays from about 0.1 EeV to more than 100 EeV. If you would like to join us, either at Master, PhD or postdoc level, do not hesitate to drop me an email.

Current members

Orazio Zapparrata

PhD student

07/2019 -

  • Auger (Prime)
  • Mass composition
  • Detector sims
Nicolas Gonzalez

Postdoctoral researcher

10/2020 -

  • Auger
  • Photon limits
  • AMIGA
Mauricio Suarez Duran

Postdoctoral researcher

01/2021 -

  • Auger
  • Scintillators
  • Anisotropies

Former members

Katarina Simkova

Master student

2022

  • Auger
  • Novel calibration
  • Auger Prime

Master thesis: The performance of a novel calibration method for the AugerPrime surface detector signals and the ultra-high-energetic cosmic-ray spectra on & off the Galactic plane (longest ever title for a Master thesis)

Daniela Mockler

Postdoctoral researcher

01/2019 - 12/2021

  • IceCube/IceTop
  • Auger
  • SiPM

Science officer at National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) Germany

Zig Hampel Arias

Postdoctoral researcher

10/2018- 10/2019

  • Deep learning
  • SiPM
  • IceCube/Top

IQT Labs open-source advanced analytics lab. His research focuses on studying the capabilities and limitations of generative statistical models. He supervises and collaborates on research initiatives investigating differential privacy and scene understanding with machine learning.

Koun Choi

Postdoctoral researcher

07/2018 - 03/2020

  • Auger
  • Arrival directions
  • Dipole studies

Researcher at Institute for Basic Science, Korea

+32 2 629 32 26

Address: Boulevard du Triomphe,2, CP 230, B-1050 Bruxelles

Office: Building G, 0G-113, VUB Campus