NASA Postdoctoral Program: Predicting Precipitation-Driven Disruptions to Critical Infrastructure

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 focuses on extreme precipitation events that are escalating hazards contributing to expensive disasters and impacts on critical infrastructure. The research will accelerate the development of reliable predictive capabilities for high-impact, low-frequency rainfall extremes by employing advanced computational techniques grounded in physical laws. The successful candidate will develop and implement large Earth foundation model pipelines to generate synthetic datasets of precipitation events to predict infrastructure disruptions. Candidates must possess exceptional expertise across atmospheric physics, computational modeling, and data science, with required knowledge of atmospheric science or meteorology and computer science.