NASA Postdoctoral Program - Astrophysics: Advanced Techniques in X-ray Optics

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 developing techniques to manufacture x-ray telescopes with high angular resolution, high throughput, light weight, low cost, and efficient production. The research involves working with epoxy replication techniques and precision glass mirror forming techniques for advanced x-ray optics. The position is located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and seeks postdoctoral fellows interested in working on state-of-the-art x-ray optics for current and future space missions with unprecedented angular resolution and photon collection areas.