At the BPS meeting in May 2019, Dr. Daniela Mockler was awarded the "Prize for best speaker". Congratulations!
March 2019: Young scientists cheer after installing the first antenna for the AugerPrime radio upgrade!
The Dutch organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) will fund a new antenna network at the Pierre Auger Observatory. The research group Cosmic Ray Research at Radboud University and Nikhef will receive 2.5 million € from the NWO Large Investment Grant programme.
The Pierre Auger Collaboration wins award of physicsworld.com: "To the Pierre Auger Observatory collaboration for showing that ultra-high-energy cosmic rays come from outside the Milky Way."
It is our sad duty to announce that Michael Hillas, a great scientist and founder of modern high-energy astroparticle physics, passed away on November 26, 2017 at the age of 85.
We are very happy to announce the election of our new spokespersons at the recent collaboration meeting of the Pierre Auger Observatory.
Impact Award
The Pierre Auger Collaboration Impact Award
The Pierre Auger Collaboration Impact Award was established in 2020 and it is dedicated to people who have spent a significant amount of their time on technical developments that have a very large impact on the functioning of the detectors or on data analysis.
The scientific results we are providing are highly dependent on technical efforts, which often are not visible in scientific publications or cannot be given proper credit in papers. This award is intended to give both internal and external recognition to those people and their efforts in detector design, software development, and simulation production, among other activities, to help young colleagues start a career in science.
The candidates can be either non-senior members of the Collaboration: students and scientists at post-doctoral level, or technicians and engineers who have made exceptionally important technical contributions to the success of the project, linked to any area of the experiment.
See here the winners of the Auger Impact Award: