Code of Conduct and Ethical Behaviour of the Pierre Auger Collaboration

November 2021

The Pierre Auger Collaboration is a diverse community of scientists, engineers, technicians, students, administrative and support staff from different backgrounds, countries and cultures, brought together by common scientific interests. The Collaboration considers the diversity of its composition as a strength to be nurtured, values the participation of every member of its community and is committed to provide a professional and welcoming place for everybody.

To guarantee a fulfilling experience for all, in a work environment that is professional and free from all forms of discrimination, harassment and retaliation, the Collaboration has developed a code in which we state the shared rules of good conduct by which all members are expected to abide.

This Code of Conduct applies to all community situations online and offline, including mailing lists, forums, social media, workshops, conferences, meetings, associated social events and one-to-one interactions. It serves as a guide for scientific integrity and inclusive behaviour in the working environment of the Pierre Auger Collaboration.

We are committed to providing an environment that encourages the free expression and exchange of scientific ideas and to guarantee the equality of opportunity and treatment for all members. We promote a high standard of integrity in the performance of our work and in our relationships with others to build a culture of trust and responsibility.

We acknowledge that our collective commitment to creating a positive work environment and to act ethically in the conduct of our activities is essential both to the achievement of the scientific goals of the Collaboration and the protection of its reputation.

Auger Collaborators are welcome to consult our Ombudspersons.

Who's Who in the Pierre Auger Collaboration

Spokespersons (more information)

• Antonella Castellina (Spokesperson – Torino)
• Markus Roth (Co-Spokesperson – Karlsruhe)

Previous Spokespersons

Project Managers

• Ingo Allekotte (Project Manager – Bariloche)
• Patrick Stassi (Deputy Project Manager – Grenoble)

Former Project Managers

• Paul Mantsch (Former Project Manager – Fermilab)
• Jonny Kleinfeller (Former Project Manager – Malargüe)
• Carlos Hojvat (Former Deputy Project Manager – Fermilab)

Project Management Team (KIT)

• Anna Friedrich (Project Secretary)
• Bianca Keilhauer (Cost and Schedule Officer)
• Matthias Kleifges (Technical Engineer & Health, Safety and Environment)
• Beatrix von Puttkamer (Webmaster)
• Claudia Schäfer (Admin)

Collaboration Board

• Federico Sánchez (Chair – Buenos Aires)
• Julian Rautenberg (Co-Chair – Wuppertal)

Ex-officio members include Auger Spokespersons, CB Chairperson and Co-Chairperson, Project Managers, Site Managers and Site Spokespersons, and Task Leaders.

Science and Performance Coordinators

• Denise Boncioli, Lorenzo Cazon (Science Coordinators)
• Darko Veberič, Franceso Salamida, Jörg Hörandel, Federico Sanchez (Detector Performance Coordinators)

Science and Performance Task Leaders

Science Analysis

• Cosmic Ray Phenomenology
  E. Roulet, A. di Matteo
• Multimessenger
  K.-H. Kampert, E. Zas
• Neutral Particles
  J. Alvarez-Muñiz, M. Niechciol
• Cosmo-geophysics
  R. Colalillo, R. Mussa

Science Pillars

• Energy Spectrum
  D. Ravignani, F. Riehn
• Mass Composition
  E. Mayotte, A. Yushkov
• Arrival Directions
  L. Caccianiga, G. Golup
• Air Shower Physics
  R. Conceicao, J. Vicha

Science Tools

• Shower Simulations
  G. Isar, E. Santos
• Software Framework
  L. Nellen, M. Gottowik
• Machine Learning
  J. Glombitza, S. Hahn

Analysis Foundations

• D. Schmidt, V. Verzi, T. Huege, J. M. Figueira

Detector Foundations

• Calibration
  B. Pont, G. Salina, B. Andrada, R. Sarmento
• Atmospheric Conditions
  B. Keilhauer, L. Valore
• Triggers and UUB Commissioning
  D. Nitz, M. Schimassek, T. Suomijarvi
• Monitoring and Long Term Performance
  C. Bonifazi, F. Gollon, J. Rautenberg

Auger as a test environment

• I. Maris, S. Mayotte

Site Spokesperson

• Alberto Etchegoyen (CNEA)

Site Manager

• Gualberto Ávila (CNEA)

Site Staff

• Ricardo Sato (Science Operations Coordinator – SD)
• Fabián Gobbi (SD)
• Miguel Salvadores (SD)
• Juan Pablo Gongora (SD)
• Mauro Gajardo (SD)
• Oscar Sáez (SD)
• Raúl Vidal (SD)
• Pedro Barraza (SD)
• Sebastián Villar (Maintenance)
• Yosel Balibrea (FD Operations)
• Jorge Rodriguez (FD)
• Primo Vitale (FD)
• Leandro Gomez (FD)
• Rosa Inés Pacheco (Secretary of Management)
• Yamila Giménez (Accounting)
• Yan Carlos Guerra (Computing Systems and CDAS Administration)
• Juan Pablo Behler (Computer Systems Administrator)
• Jesica Velazquez (Computing and Maintenance)
• Ricardo Pérez (Building and Grounds Manager)
• Matias Parasecoli (Mechanical Technician)
• Javier Salinas (Mechanical Technician)
• Alexis Rodríguez (Maintenance and Night Watcher)
• Ivan Munoz (Maintenance and Night Watcher)
• Jose Rojas (Maintenance and Night Watcher)
• Jorge Alcalde (Maintenance and Night Watcher)
• Juan Blanco (Maintenance and Night Watcher)
• Dario Villalovos (Infrastructure Maintenance)
• José Escalona (Environment, Health and Safety)
• Marcos Cerda (AERA/RD)
• José María Ferrada (AERA/RD)
• Carlos Gómez (AERA/RD)
• Neiber Castro (Maintenance)
• Brisa Sáez (AERA/RD)
• Bruno Molina (AERA/RD)
• Ezequiel Muñoz (AERA/RD)
• Danilo Espinoza (AERA/RD)
• Aldana López (AERA/RD)
• Nicolás Leal (AMIGA/UMD)
• Gustavo Rios (AMIGA/UMD)
• Gabriel Morales (AMIGA/UMD)
• Agustin Morales (AMIGA/UMD)
• Luciana Torres (AMIGA/UMD)
• Maximiliano Maciel (AMIGA/UMD)
• Nicolás Sepúlveda (AMIGA/UMD)
• Andrés Travaini (SDE Maintenance)
• Gabriel Diaz (Maintenance)
• Matias Rojas (Maintenance)
• Agustina Gónzalez (Outreach)
• Ivana Arroyo (Outreach)
• Tania Dominguez (Outreach)
• Marcela Cogo (Outreach)
• Isabel Farías (Cleaning Service)
• Marta Gonzalez (Cleaning Service)
• Gladys Prieto (Cleaning Service)

Tasks & Sub-Tasks

• Fluorescence Detector
  Hermann-Josef Mathes (Task Leader – Karlsruhe)
  Martina Boháčová (Co-Task Leader – Prague)
  
  

  Sub-Tasks FD:

  • Mirrors and Related Optics
    Petr Schovánek (Olomouc)
  • Camera
    Valerio Verzi (Rome)
  • Atmospheric Monitoring
    Lawrence Wiencke (Mines)
    Bianca Keilhauer (Karlsruhe)
• Fluorescence Detector Electronics
  Matthias Kleifges (Task Leader – Karlsruhe)
  
  

  Sub-Task FDE:

  • HV and LV power supply for FD
    Rossella Caruso (Catania)
• Surface Detector Systems
  Peter Mazur (Task Leader – Fermilab)
  Fred Sarazin (Co-Task Leader – Mines)
• Surface Detector Electronics
  Tiina Suomijarvi (Task Leader – Orsay)
  Dave Nitz (Co-Task Leader – Michigan Tech)
• Surface Scintillation Detector
  Daniele Martello (Task Leader – Lecce)
• Communications
  Corbin Covault (Task Leader – Case Western)
  Dave Nitz (Co-Task Leader – Michigan Tech)
  
  • Surface Detector Communications Antenna Systems
  • Wireless LAN Network
  • Backbone Network
  • Antennae, Propagation
  • Mechanical Integration Liaison
  • Wide Area Networks
  • Local Area Network
• Central Data Acquisition System
  David Schmidt (Task Leader – Karlsruhe)
• Monitoring
  Julian Rautenberg (Task Leader – Wuppertal)
• Data Processing and Analysis
  Lukas Nellen (Task Leader - UNAM)
  Marvin Gottowik (Co-Task Leader – Karlsruhe)
• AMIGA/UMD (Auger Muons and Infill for the Ground Array)
  Federico Sánchez (Task Leader – ITeDA)
  Nicolás Leal (Co-Task Leader – ITeDA)
  
  

  Sub-Tasks AMIGA/UMD:

  • Assembly and Deployment (Nicolás Leal - ITeDA)
  • Electronics and Comms (Alan Fuster - ITeDA)
  • Data Integration and Monitoring (Adrian Sedoski - ITeDA)
• Education – Outreach
  Beatriz García (Task Leader – ITeDA)
  Karen Salome Caballero Mora (Co-Task Leader – Chiapas)
• AERA/RD
  Jörg Hörandel (Task Leader – IMAPP)
  Tim Huege (Co-Task Leader – Karlsruhe)
• Data Release Task
  Viviana Scherini (Task Leader – Lecce)

Early Career Assembly

• Fabio Convenga (Early Career Assembly Representative)
• Katarina Simkova (Early Career Assembly Co-Representative)

Committees

• Publication Committee
  Ioana Maris – Chair
  Roger Clay
  Bruce Dawson
  Carola Dobrigkeit
  Silvia Mollerach
  Laura Valore
• Conference Committee
  Markus Risse – Chair
  Carla Bonifazi
  Ugo Giaccari
  Eva Santos

Last updated September 19, 2024

Scientific & Technical Advisory Committee

• Francis Halzen, University of Madison (chair)
• Thomas K. Gaisser (Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware)
• Felix Mirabel (CEA Saclay)
• Henry W. Sobel (University of Irvine)
• Christian Spiering (Desy Zeuthen)
• Christophe de la Taille (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau)

The Pierre Auger Collaboration includes over 500 scientists from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, and the United States of America.

Find out more about people and tasks in the "Who's Who".

The analysis of data streaming in from the Pierre Auger Observatory has led to exciting results which are reported in our Scientific Highlights.
See here our Refereed Journal Articles and our ICRC Papers.

Funding Agencies

Argentina

Comision Nacional de Energia Atómica (CNEA)
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)
Provincia de Mendoza
Municipalidad de Malargüe

Australia

Physics, Chemistry and Geoscience & Centres Program, Australian Research Council

Belgium

Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS)
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Brazil

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
Programas Horizontais e Instrumentais
Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF)
São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ)

Colombia

Czech Republic

Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

France

Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules (IN2P3)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Germany

Project Management of Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) + Universities for Astroparticle Physics
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT - Helmholtz Centre of the Helmholtz Association

Italy

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)

Mexico

Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT)

Netherlands

Nationaal Instituut voor Subatomaire Fysica (Nikhef)

Poland

Ministry of Education and Science
National Science Centre

Portugal

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT)

Romania

Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering - Executive Unit for funding Higher Education, research, Development and Innovation (UEFISCDI)

Slovenia

Ministry for Science, Education and Sports

Spain

Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnologia

United States

The National Science Foundation (NSF)

Acknowledgment and Disclaimer: Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies.

Auger Spokespersons

Antonella Castellina

Spokesperson since November 2023, Co-Spokesperson 2017 - 2023

Antonella Castellina is Director of Research at INAF (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica) and associated for Scientific Research to INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Torino, Italy. Before studying particle astrophysics, her research focussed on diffractive physics in forward multi-particle spectrometers and on calorimeters for the study of proton decay (as fellow member of UCLA, Los Angeles, and CERN).

She then studied neutrinos from stellar collapses at the underground laboratories of Mont Blanc and Gran Sasso, and extensive air showers at the EAS-TOP observatory, where she lead the analysis of the data from the hadronic calorimeter. She is author of the monograph "Astrophysics of Galactic Charged Cosmic Rays”, in vol. 5 of "Stellar Systems and Galactic Structures”. In 2001 she joined the Pierre Auger Collaboration, focussing mainly on the study of cosmic ray composition and hadronic interactions and, most recently, on the development of the AugerPrime detectors.

Markus Roth

Co-Spokesperson since November 2023

Markus Roth is senior scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. His research interests are related to the physics and detection of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. His main focus is on the analysis chain from detector calibration to event reconstruction up to high-level analyses. His most recent work centres on the Auger observatory upgrade, AugerPrime.

Roth received his PhD at the Univ. of Tübingen (Germany) in 1998. Before joining the Pierre Auger Collaboration in 2002, he worked inter alia on the KASCADE-Grande experiment in Karlsruhe (Germany). A Fyodor Lynen Fellowship at the University of Leeds (UK) gave him his first insight into the field of UHECR. Prior to being elected as co-spokesperson he has been leader of various tasks within Auger. Roth is one of the the leading figures at the Helmholtz International Research School for Astroparticle Physics and Enabling Technologies of KIT and the Universidad Nacional de San Martin (UNSAM), Buenos Aires (Argentina). He holds various positions within the astroparticle physics community.