NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship - Studying the Reionization Epoch with Superconducting On-Chip Spectroscopy

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 fellowship opportunity focuses on studying the Reionization epoch using line intensity mapping (LIM) in far-IR through millimeter waveband. The postdoctoral fellow will join a group developing instruments for ground-based, balloon-borne and space-borne platforms, particularly working with SuperSpec, a superconducting integrated circuit spectrometer that combines a millimeter-wave filterbank with an integrated kinetic inductance detector array. The fellow will participate in Large Millimeter Telescope campaigns and play a leading role in building the next-generation focal plane with ~100 or more spectrometer pixels. Opportunities also exist to contribute to the development of ultra-sensitive far-IR detectors for space-borne platforms and the Terahertz Intensity Mapper (TIM) balloon-borne spectrometer.