NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship - Astrophysics: Discovery and Characterization of Transiting Exoplanets

The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects. This specific fellowship focuses on transiting exoplanet science using data from NASA missions including TESS, Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope, and the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The position involves studying transiting exoplanets around nearby, bright stars and performing detailed atmospheric characterization. Research areas include developing tools for light curve extraction and transit searching, modeling scientific yields, developing follow-up observation plans, generating atmospheric models and performing retrievals, and simulating transiting exoplanets with Roman telescope data. Fellows will have opportunities to work with current data and obtain new observations with ground-based and space-based facilities. The fellowship is located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, with multiple advisors available in the astrophysics field.