NASA Postdoctoral Program - Theoretical modeling of exoplanetary atmospheres

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 the development of 1D, 2D, and 3D models to understand the radiative, advective and chemical processes in exoplanet and brown dwarf atmospheres. The research includes ongoing projects in atmospheric modeling related to the interpretation of ground- and space-based data from Palomar, Spitzer and HST and eventually JWST. These projects are also precursor studies to future telescopes planned for the 2020s including JWST, the Roman Space Telescope and ARIEL/CASE. Research benefits from collaborations at JPL, Caltech, and around the world, and in particular the interactive and interdisciplinary environment enabled by JPL's Exoplanetary Science Initiative (ESI). ESI seeks to strengthen connections between astrophysics, planetary science and earth science in study of exoplanets, towards ultimately addressing the question of habitability in the universe.