X-ray laboratory astrophysics

Organization

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

0208-NPP-MAR
26-GSFC-Astrophys

All applications must be submitted in Zintellect. Please visit the NASA Postdoctoral Program website for application instructions and requirements:

How to Apply

| NASA Postdoctoral Program (orau.org)

3/1/2026 6:00:59 PM Eastern Time Zone

The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talent 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.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze data from calorimeter and grating instruments for high-resolution X-ray spectroscopic observations of astrophysical objects.
• Provide high-quality atomic data and an understanding of its limitations through joint theory development and laboratory benchmark experiments.
• Participate in laboratory astrophysics collaborations to provide data for interpretation of observations by Chandra, XMM, and future missions (XRISM, Athena, Arcus, Lynx).
• Deploy high-resolution X-ray calorimeter arrays, measure transition energies, oscillator strengths, and electron impact excitation cross sections.
• Archive and publicize atomic data, and collaborate on astrophysical modeling utilizing this data.
• Carry out a targeted program of atomic physics calculations.

• Doctoral Degree in Astrophysics, Physics, or related field.
• Strong background in X-ray spectroscopy and atomic data.
• Experience with high-resolution calorimeter arrays and laboratory astrophysics collaboration.

Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland

Astrophysics

Maurice Andrew Leutenegger
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Frederick Scott Porter
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• U.S. Citizens.
• U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents (LPR).
• Foreign Nationals eligible for an Exchange Visitor J-1 visa status.
• Applicants for LPR, asylees, or refugees in the U.S. with a valid EAD card and pending I-485 or I-589 forms.

Questions about this opportunity? Please email npp.