NASA Postdoctoral Program - Exobiology: Living Systems Science

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 astrobiology as a systems science, tackling complex interactive phenomena from planetary climate to organisms' metabolic behavior. The Living Systems Science effort seeks to further system science approaches in astrobiology and to enhance existing work at Ames Research Center with research that spans mission-related development, the creation of powerful modeling and analysis tools for the community, and work on the fundamental principles of life and habitability. A major component of this initiative is to develop a near- and long-term capability in machine-learning applications for astrobiology. The postdoctoral researcher will have the opportunity to explore their own research directions and participate in the design and proposal of projects while working in collaboration to support cross-cutting efforts in astrobiology at NASA Ames.