NASA Postdoctoral Program - High Contrast Imaging with JWST, Roman Coronagraph and the Habitable Worlds Observatory

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 opportunity focuses on high contrast imaging instruments, such as those on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the upcoming Roman Coronagraph Instrument, laying the groundwork for NASA's planned Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). The postdoctoral fellow would participate in the development, implementation and validation of wavefront sensing and data-processing techniques for state-of-the-art space-based coronagraphs and high contrast imaging instruments. They would have the opportunity to help with the preparation, data processing and analysis of high-contrast imaging observations (JWST and Roman Coronagraph). JPL postdoctoral fellows can apply for observing time on the Palomar 5-meter telescope and have access to high-performance computing resources to support their research.