Postdoc: Cosmology- Galactic Dust
Full time
at Jet Propulsion Laboratory
in
Philippines
Posted on April 20, 2024
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Apply locations JPL Campus time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago job requisition id R4887Job Details
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- Extra-galactic backgrounds and dust extinction maps,
- Physics of the Interstellar Medium,
- Machine learning-based astronomical data analysis.
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