NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship - Unlocking the nature of dark matter through strong gravitational lensing

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 strong gravitational lensing research to constrain the nature of dark matter. The postdoctoral fellow will work at JPL on developing and applying analysis methods to existing and upcoming strong lens system data, using observations from projects like Roman, Euclid, Rubin, and JWST. The research involves furthering the development of existing analysis methods and creating new inferential techniques to probe dark matter structure on sub-galactic scales.