Heliophysics Science: High-Energy Aspects of Solar Flares

The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects at a NASA Center, NASA Headquarters, or at a NASA-affiliated research institute. These one- to three-year fellowships are competitive and are designed to advance NASA's missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology. This specific opportunity focuses on investigating the acceleration of charged particles to high energies and their confinement, transport, and subsequent energy losses through observations of X-rays and gamma rays and through theoretical modeling of solar flares. The research involves analysis of data from RHESSI and other missions, development of numeric codes for modeling energetic electrons, and instrument development for high-resolution detectors. The position is located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and is suitable for postdoctoral researchers with a wide range of talents in heliophysics, though a solar physics background is an advantage but not required.