Post-Doctoral Associate - NIRSpec data James Webb Space Telescope (Scarlata) - Military Veterans
at HERC- Upper MidWest
Applications are invited for a post-doctoral researcher to work with Dr. Claudia Scarlata and collaborators at the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics. The postdoc will work with NIRSpec spectroscopic data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The data were acquired with an innovative strategy that allows the use of NIRSpec as a slitless spectrograph. More details can be found here. The postdoc will be responsible for the development of the data-reduction pipeline for this new observing method.
70%: development of the data-reduction pipeline for this new observing method..
5% Supervision of graduate students, and undergraduates participating in this research
10% Maintain familiarity with the latest results and methods in the field, reading relevant papers, organizing and participating in seminars and conferences.
15%: Communicating research to the collaboration and the broader community by giving presentations to the collaboration, writing technical documents, and submitting papers for publication in peer-reviewed journals. Giving presentations at universities and laboratories, and presenting results at domestic and international conferences.
Other duties of a similar scope as assigned.
Required:
PhD in Physics or Astrophysics by beginning date of appointment.
Preferred:
Previous experience with slitless spectroscopy and JWST spectroscopic data is highly desirable.
Minneapolis, MN
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