NASA Postdoctoral Program: Astrophysics - Theoretical Multi-messenger Astrophysics

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 position focuses on studying particle interactions in the most powerful astrophysical objects and associated with particle dark matter, in accordance with NASA's Strategic Objective of discovering how the universe works and exploring how it began and evolved. The research involves studying particle acceleration and interactions in astrophysical objects such as active galactic nuclei, gamma-ray bursts, pulsars, and structure formation shocks, as well as calculating fluxes of gamma rays, neutrinos, and cosmic rays from models of the annihilation or decay of dark matter. The goal is to identify sources of astrophysical neutrinos and the highest energy cosmic rays and identify prospects for multi-messenger observations performed by gamma-ray, neutrino, UHECR, and gravitational wave telescopes. The position is located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.