Chandra Announcement: NASA Awards Prize Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2020

[Tara Gokas]

NASA Awards Prize Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2020

NASA has selected 24 new Fellows for its prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP). The program enables outstanding postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research across NASA Astrophysics, using theory, observation, experimentation, or instrument development. Each fellowship provides the awardee up to three years of support.

The NHFP is one of the highlights of NASA's pursuit of excellence in space science, and preserves the legacy of NASA's previous postdoctoral fellowship programs – the Hubble, Einstein and Sagan Fellowships. Once selected, fellows are named to one of three sub-categories corresponding to three broad scientific questions about the universe that NASA seeks to answer:

 

How does the universe work? – Einstein Fellows

How did we get here? – Hubble Fellows

Are we alone? – Sagan Fellows

 

The Chandra X-ray Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts works in collaboration with the Space Telescope Science Institute and the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute to oversee the NASA Hubble Fellowships.

The NASA press release is available at https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2020/news-2020-20

Short bios and photos of the 2020 NHFP Fellows can be found at http://www.stsci.edu/stsci-research/fellowships/nasa-hubble-fellowship-program/2020-nhfp-fellows