LEAD SCIENTIST - SR. RESEARCH SCIENTIST - Solar Coronal Physics - Boulder, Colorado
SWRI
- Lead and/or contribute to development of new missions, mission concepts, and data analysis tools and techniques for solar coronal remote sensing research.
- Develop and advance novel image processing and/or spectroscopic analysis techniques.
- Help build, calibrate, and test new remote sensing instrumentation for solar coronal imaging and/or spectroscopy.
- Develop or extend a program of funded research in the fields of solar coronal physics and space weather, with emphasis on high-energy solar processes and leveraging new missions, instruments, and mission concepts.
- Participate in mission and instrument development activities, including laboratory and/or field calibration and testing of instruments, and development of flight and/or ground operational software.
- Develop and apply cutting edge techniques of coronal imaging and spectroscopy; and prototype, develop, validate, and test software to carry out data processing and analysis of solar coronal observations.
- Develop, propose, and carry out applied and/or fundamental research using existing solar coronal observations, new mission data, and new mission concepts.
- Disseminate scientific and/or technical progress and results to the broader scientific community through internal team meetings, peer-reviewed journal articles, scientific conferences and workshops, and technical documents and reports.
- Develop, foster, and extend new scientific and/or technical research and development collaborations within the Institute, and with external partners, both nationally and internationally.
- Requires a PhD in Solar Physics, Space Weather, Astronomy/Astrophysics, Physics, Applied Physics, or related field.
- 4-7 years: Scientific analysis of solar remote sensing data.
- 4-7 years: Scientific software design or implementation in a data analysis environment such as IDL or Python.
- 4-7 years: Flight or laboratory experience with solar remote sensing instrumentation, including calibration and data analysis.
- Experience with X-ray and/or extreme ultraviolet solar image and/or spectroscopic data.
- Demonstrated history of participation in or leadership of successful scientific and/or technical proposals to federal funding agencies.
JOB SUMMARY
LEAD SCIENTIST - SR. RESEARCH SCIENTIST - Solar Coronal Physics - Boulder, ColoradoSWRI
Boulder
6 days ago
N/A
Full-time