NASA Postdoctoral Program - Star Formation and Dust Evolution in Nearby Galaxies

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 observational research of dust and gas emission that are key tracers of star formation, evolved star mass ejection and the interstellar medium in nearby galaxies. The research involves studying the physical processes of the interstellar medium, the formation of new stars, and the injection of mass by evolved stars on a galaxy-wide scale. Observatories used include the James Webb Space Telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, Hubble Space Telescope, and archival databases including the Spitzer Space Telescope and Herschel Space Observatory. Recent observation targets include star formation regions in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, SN 1987A, NGC 6822, and I Zw 18.