NASA Postdoctoral Program - Astrophysics: High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope

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 the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which has been collecting high-energy gamma rays since August 2008. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) observes gamma rays with energies from 20 MeV to above 300 GeV and conducts an ongoing all-sky survey well-suited for multiwavelength and transient studies. The LAT explores high-energy phenomena including active galaxies, the optical-UV extragalactic background light, pulsars and their nebulae, gamma-ray bursts, and supernova remnants, while searching for new astrophysical and particle phenomena. The Fermi team at Goddard Space Flight Center offers opportunities to pursue topics over the broad range of astrophysics accessible to the LAT.