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Postdoctoral Scholar–High Energy Solar Physics - Space Sciences Laboratory

Employer
cgarrie@berkeley.edu
Location
Berkeley, California (US)
Salary
Commensurate with experience
Closing date
Aug 12, 2021

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Discipline
Space Physics
Career Level
Postdoctoral
Education Level
PhD
Job Type
Full-time
Relocation Cost
Negotiable
Sector Type
Academia

Established six decades ago, UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) was the realization of NASA’s vision to gather many of the most innovative and dedicated science minds in one place at the University of California, Berkeley. In the hill above Berkeley, physicists, researchers, biologists, engineers and technicians worked in unison: interacting, learning from one another, leading, challenging and inspiring one another in creating cutting-edge space science instrumentation and conducting top research. Through sixty years of NASA-funded support, their efforts, and those of hundreds of dedicated students and staff, have brought about myriad highlights, such as the space science missions of S3-3, ISEE, Polar, Van Allen Probes, Cluster, IMAGE, THEMIS, MAVEN, Parker Solar Probe, and ICON. All have contributed to new discoveries about the physics of space and initiated marked new advances in instrumentation technology.

The NASA Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar flares (GRIPS) payload has been selected for a second Antarctic high altitude balloon flight. GRIPS was designed to do cutting-edge imaging spectro-polarimetry of solar flares in hard X-rays and gamma-rays. The key technologies are cryocooler-cooled germanium strip detectors (forming a wide-field Compton telescope) and an imaging grid. High-altitude ballooning teams tend to be small, giving team members the possibility of getting involved in a wide swath of space hardware: flight computers, control systems, various sensors and electronics, thermal engineering, communications, and of course, next generation scientific instrumentation and data analysis. With ample support from our experienced team of scientists and engineers, we are particularly interested in someone willing to take the lead role in spectrometer assembly, care, calibration, flight operations, and data analyses. The GRIPS-2 project will last three to four years. The successful applicant is expected to present their work annually at the SSL seminar, publish and present their results at international scientific meetings, assist in or lead writing research and/or rocket/balloon/spacecraft instrument or mission proposals, and be willing to travel to Antarctica for a campaign lasting two to three months.

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