NASA Postdoctoral Program - Complex organic chemistry in comet 67P-CG

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 a comprehensive investigation that combines laboratory measurements with the analysis of data from Rosetta mission with the objective of exploring the composition of complex organics present on the surface of comet 67P-CG. The Rosetta mission has provided compelling evidence for the presence of refractory and semi-volatile complex organic materials on the surface of comet 67P-CG. The research activities entail employing a diverse array of laboratory techniques to simulate the chemical and spectroscopic properties of laboratory analogs. Available spectroscopic techniques encompass FTIR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, UV-Vis spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, ellipsometry, along with a multitude of ex-situ analytical techniques at JPL.