Prof. Dr. Ing. Bob van Eijk (left picture) of Nikhef and Technische Universiteit Twente is in charge of the coordination and operations of HiSPARC stations in and around Amsterdam. Drs. Ing. Jan Mulder of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam(VU) guides students with assembling the detectors at the VU premises.

At Science Park Amsterdam a subcluster is formed around Nikhef where most of the configurations consist of four scintillation plates and where the distance between stations varies from ~ 10 to ~ 1000 meters. This subclusters is used to detail the number of particles in cosmic showers to study and develop new software and analysis methods and to test both.