NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship - Fiber Modeling for Thermal Protection Materials

The NASA Postdoctoral Program offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects. This specific opportunity focuses on fiber modeling for thermal protection materials. The research will apply and develop simulation techniques to study the role of micro- and meso-structure on the thermal and mechanical behavior of woven materials for thermal protection materials. Fibrous materials are critical to spacecraft entry and descent in nearly every NASA mission involving atmospheric entry. The fellowship aims to connect fiber-, yarn- and weave-scale structure and physics with thermal protection composite-scale performance. These one- to three-year fellowships are competitive and designed to advance NASA's missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology.