NASA Postdoctoral Program - Cosmic Dawn and Large-scale Structure with Intensity Mapping

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 the Cosmic Dawn and Reionization epochs, which remain the last frontiers in astrophysics and cosmology. Intensity Mapping has emerged as a promising tool to efficiently probe the Universe in three-dimensions by tomographic mapping the cosmic structures using spectral lines such as the redshifted 21cm, CO, [CII], Lya and other optical lines. The candidate will aim at exploring and establishing the potentials of Intensity Mapping by combining theoretical insights with new and well-targeted observational probes, simulated and analyzed with adequate statistical methods, with possible interface with instruments. The NPP postdoctoral scholar will conduct independent research relevant to current and future potential NASA missions such as SPHEREx and CDIM at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.