NASA Postdoctoral Program - Astrophysics: X-Ray Astronomy

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 observational or theoretical research in x-ray astronomy and high-energy astrophysics with the X-ray Astronomy Team at Marshall Space Flight Center. Of particular interest are studies of x-ray polarization from cosmic sources—active galaxies, supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, and accreting neutron stars and black holes. The Team leads the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a NASA-ASI mission launched in December 2021, coordinates US archiving of data from the ART-XC instrument aboard Spectrum Röntgen Gamma, provides project science for the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and supports studies for future x-ray missions.