Heliophysics: From MHD to Kinetic Scales, Turbulence, Wave Propagation, and Wave-Particle Interactions

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

This opportunity concerns the modeling of the different aspects of the energy storage and dissipation in the outer solar atmosphere and wind, to be addressed via analytical modeling and/or numerical simulations, at either the large, MHD scales, or the smaller kinetic scales involving non-linear wave-particle interactions.

Requirements

• Doctoral degree in a relevant field
• Research proposal
• Three letters of recommendation
• Official doctoral transcript documents

Qualifications

Applications with citizens from Designated Countries will not be accepted at this time, unless they are Legal Permanent Residents of the United States. A complete list of Designated Countries can be found at: https://www.nasa.gov/oiir/export-control.

Eligibility is currently open to: U.S. Citizens; U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents (LPR); Foreign Nationals eligible for an Exchange Visitor J-1 visa status; and, Applicants for LPR, asylees, or refugees in the U.S. at the time of application with 1) a valid EAD card and 2) I-485 or I-589 forms in pending status.

Skills

Strong background in physics, astrophysics, or related fields.

Benefits

One- to three-year fellowships designed to advance NASA’s missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology.

Pay

N/A

Schedule

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Contact Information

Point of Contact: Mikeala

References

• Rappazzo, F., Velli, M., Einaudi, G. and Dahlburg, R., (2008) Astrophys. J. 677, 1348, Nonlinear Dynamics of the Parker Scenario for Coronal Heating.
• Verdini, A. and Velli, M. (2007) Astrophys J. 662, P 669, Alfven Waves and Turbulence in the Solar Atmosphere and Solar Wind.