NASA Postdoctoral Program - Astrophysics: The Nature of Star-forming Galaxies at High Redshift

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 characterizing the nature of star-forming galaxies at the epoch when most stars formed (redshift 1-3) through studying spatially resolved spectroscopy and narrow-band imaging of galaxies that have been dramatically magnified by gravitational lensing. Research involves optical, near-IR, and mid-IR spectra from Magellan, Keck, and Spitzer, as well as broad and narrow-band imaging from Hubble. This work prototypes the sorts of science that JWST will be able to conduct for large samples of unlensed galaxies. The position is located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, under the advisorship of Dr. Jane Rigby.