NASA Postdoctoral Program: Astrophysics - James Webb Space Telescope Science and Instrumentation

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. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center invites applications to carry out postdoctoral research in astrophysics or planetary science. The applicant will work directly with one of the JWST Project Scientists and will be resident at GSFC. The proposed research should be highly relevant to JWST, such as analyzing JWST data, proposing new observations, analyzing complementary datasets, making simulations, or proposing instrumentation work relevant to JWST and/or the Habitable Worlds Observatory. Research topics include deep or wide surveys of galaxies and active nuclei, gravitationally lensed galaxies, multi-wavelength galaxy evolution, integral field or multi-object spectroscopy of galaxies, debris disks, exoplanets using coronagraphic or transiting techniques, Solar System Objects, and infrared instrumentation including advanced detectors, wavefront sensing, and optics.