Heliophysics: Structure, Dynamics and Heating of the Solar Corona and Interface Region

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 solar coronal and interface region research in conjunction with space-based instruments including the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) and Extreme Ultraviolet Normal Incidence Spectrograph (EUNIS). The Solar Physics Laboratory at Goddard Space Flight Center is active in all phases of obtaining and analyzing solar observations, with opportunities for participating in research on new techniques of measurement, development of new instrumentation, analysis and interpretation of data, and modeling of solar structure and dynamics. Research includes detection and analysis of transient phenomena, application of spectroscopic diagnostic techniques for determining physical conditions, theoretical studies and computer modeling of energy transport, heating mechanisms, and plasma instabilities. The fellowship provides opportunities to work with coordinated observations from orbital instruments such as on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the Hinode spacecraft.