Brookhaven National Laboratory (www.bnl.gov ) delivers discovery science and transformative technology to power and secure the nation’s future. The Lab is primarily supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science.

The successful candidate will focus on the LuSEE-Night project, which will land a Dark Ages pathfinder experiment on the far side of the Moon. LuSEE-Night is scheduled to fly on the CS-3 mission of NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services in the second part of 2025. LuSEE-Night will demonstrate technical feasibility of the low frequency (0.1-50MHz) radio observations from the far-side of the Moon. It will characterize the lunar far-side as a radio astronomy observatory and identify main sources of systematic errors for high precision observations. We are looking for a physicist to work on hardware, instrument development, and preparation for data analysis. Successful candidate will work with Anže Slosar. You will enjoy a high level of interaction with an international and multi-cultural scientific community.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Detailed characterization and testing of the analog/digital signal chain using laboratory measurements combined with numerical modeling.
• Developing statistical models of the low-frequency radio sky and predicting the observed signal as a part of LuSEE-Night Science Collaboration.
• Developing analysis methods and data reduction software to characterize galactic and extragalactic foregrounds and to extract Dark Ages constraints
• Advancing new approaches to system calibration

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• PhD in Physics, Astrophysics, Astronomy or a related field
• Fluency in Python programming language
• Familiarity with Github software development ecosystem

Please refer to the job description for full details: https://jobs.bnl.gov/job/upton/postdoctoral-research-associate-lunar-rad...