NASA Postdoctoral Program - Planetary Volcanism

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 seeks an independent and highly motivated Research Scientist to lead groundbreaking investigations into magmatic volcanism across the inner solar system. By leveraging ground-truth observations from Earth, Mars, and the Moon, alongside advanced remote sensing spectral data and elemental analyses, the successful candidate will pioneer the development of predictive models that shed light on the early conditions of terrestrial planets. Key research areas include comparative analysis of magmatic systems across terrestrial bodies, establishing eruption chronologies using geochronologic techniques and remote sensing, exploring seismo-volcanic correlations, and identifying targets within Artemis landing sites for empirical testing to inform mission planning.