NASA Postdoctoral Program: Astrophysics - Extragalactic Astronomy (Active Galactic Nuclei, Clusters of Galaxies, and the Cosmic Web)

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 research opportunity focuses on extragalactic astronomical research, including observational studies of galaxy clusters and/or active galactic nuclei (AGN). Programs may use NASA observatories such as the Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra, XMM, Spitzer, GALEX, NASA ground-based telescopes such as Keck or IRTF, ground-based optical/infrared observatories, or radio observatories such as the Very Large Array and ALMA. AGN programs are designed to illuminate the activation and fueling of quasars, Seyfert galaxies, and powerful radio galaxies, and the feedback upon their host galaxies and larger surroundings. Also relevant are absorption line studies of cosmic web material intervening between background quasars and UV spectrographs. Ongoing spectroscopic and imaging studies of galaxy clusters address the evolution of clusters and the effect of the cluster environment on the evolution of the constituent galaxies. The position is located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.