Research Assistant

Employee's Effective Start Date 05/01/2026 If this is a Temporary position, provide end date or enter N/A for any other position type. 8/21/2026 Minimum Qualifications Knowledge of emcee, knowledge of astrophysics and introductory cosmology, knowledge of Hawking radiation physics. Desired Qualifications Position Purpose To complete two papers: 1) using the future AMEGO-X and eAstrogam observations to test the abundance of primordial black holes and 2) on probing for signals of weakly interacting dark matter in the cosmic-ray positron fraction observations. Job Duties To run emcee simulations in order to perform parameter scans of astrophysical and dark matter sources of cosmic ray positrons and electrons and subsequently test to the cosmic- ray positron fraction data by the Alpha Magnetic spectrometer. Job Open Date 04/10/2026 Job Close Date Open Until Filled No

Created: 2026-04-15