NASA Postdoctoral Program - Galactic and extragalactic ISM and Star Formation

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 position focuses on the study of the properties of the interstellar medium and how they relate to the formation and evolution of molecular clouds, the formation of stars, and the feedback effects that newly formed stars have on their parent molecular clouds. The research uses far-infrared and sub-millimeter spectral line emission from ions, atoms, and molecules, utilizing data from missions such as Herschel and SOFIA. The position seeks postdoctoral fellows who will study the properties of the interstellar medium in our Galaxy and nearby galaxies, with a focus on relating what can be learned in the local universe to high redshift galaxies. The research will use the Milky Way and low-metallicity nearby galaxies such as the Magellanic Clouds as templates for understanding galaxies throughout the universe.