NASA Postdoctoral Program - Heliophysics: Solar Physics Research

The NASA Postdoctoral Program offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects at NASA Centers. This specific opportunity is at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center within the heliophysics program for postdoctoral research. Applications are invited for work with observational data from space-borne missions and ground-based telescopes, or for instrument development for observations of solar UV and X-ray emissions. Research areas include middle coronal imaging and analysis, X-ray spectroscopy, filament eruptions, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), solar flares, coronal heating, small-scale chromospheric and transition region structures, signatures of magnetic reconnection, and plasma flows in solar flares. Marshall team members are actively involved in analysis of data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), Hinode, and Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) space missions. Instrumental research opportunities include participation in design, development, and testing of optical systems and cameras for UV and X-ray telescopes. 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.