NASA Postdoctoral Program - Astrophysics: Infrared Stellar Interferometry: Instrumentation and Observations of Circumstellar Material around Young and Late Type Stars

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 stellar interferometry research at Goddard Space Flight Center. The research involves observations of debris disks with the LBTI as part of a funded Precursor Science project for the Habitable Worlds Observatory, focusing on exozodiacal dust that affects the search for earth-sized planets in habitable zones. Additionally, the opportunity includes work with the MATISSE instrument at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer for protoplanetary disk and young stellar object observations. Research activities include observations, data analysis, modeling, and image reconstruction of circumstellar material around young and late-type stars.