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 and gamma rays from 0.01 EeV to more than 100 EeV. If you would like to join us, either at Master, PhD or postdoctoral level, do not hesitate to drop me an email.

Current members

Mateo Fernandez

postdoctoral reseacher

2024-

  • AugerPrime
  • PEPS
  • Design studies
Andrea Parenti

postdoctoral reseacher

2024-

  • IceTop/IceCube
  • Photon searches
  • Deep learning
Vincent Pelgrims

MSCA fellow

2023-

  • GADGET project
  • Magnetic fields
  • Auger anisotropies
Benjamin Flaggs

PhD student (BAEF)

2023-2024

  • AugerPrime
  • Muon measurements
  • Double liners, radio
Katarina Simkova

PhD student (FWO)

2023-

Master student

2021-2022

  • Centaurus A
  • Moon Shadow
  • AugerPrime

Former members

Nicolas Gonzalez

Postdoctoral researcher

2020 - 2022

  • Auger
  • Photon limits
  • AMIGA

Now with a permanent position as a researcher at ITeDa, Buenos Aires, still one of our closest collaborators. Most stringent photon limits with the Underground Muon Detector of Auger.

Orazio Zapparrata

PhD student

07/2019 - 10/2023

  • Auger (Prime)
  • Mass composition
  • Detector sims

PhD Thesis: Deep Learning in the Face of Time: Exploring the Impact of Ageing on Pierre Auger Observatory measurements. Currently hired as a data analyst at the KBC bank in Brussels.

Mauricio Suarez Duran

Postdoctoral researcher

2021 - 2022

  • Auger
  • Scintillators
  • Anisotropies

Lecturer and researcher at Universidad de la Costa, Barraquilla - Colombia. His research focuses on data science and radiation detection for the LAGO collaboration.

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

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