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Postdoctoral Scholar - Space Sciences Laboratory - UC Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

New Grad, Entry Level

$71K/yr - $79K/yr

0+ years exp

UC Berkeley is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in our public mission of research, teaching, and service. The postdoctoral scholar will conduct research on adaptive optics for black hole science and collaborate with teams at UC Berkeley and Keck Observatory, focusing on wavefront error analysis and simulation.

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Responsibilities

Perform an in-depth study of the adaptive optics (AO) wavefront error budget both for the current laser-guide star AO systems at Keck and for a future visible-light AO system on the Keck I telescope

Use analytic error budgets and high-fidelity wave-optics simulation of the telescope, AO system, and instrument

Evaluate the impact of optical and calibration errors of the current system and compare, in detail, to on-bench and on-sky telemetry for a deeper understanding of residual wavefront errors and delivered AO performance

Design experiments, data collection, data analysis and interpretation, running simulations, drafting and disseminating results, and designing publicly available web tools based on the techniques and results from the research project