Matthew Penny

This postdoctoral opening at Louisiana State University sits within the astronomy group and is centered on the analysis of data from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey. The project is framed around a major new survey dataset expected to open up studies of planetary systems and Galactic structure on a large scale. The successful researcher will join Professor Matthew Penny and work with the Roman GBTDS Project Infrastructure Team and/or the Transiting Exoplanets in the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey (TrEXS) collaboration. The research scope includes several interconnected topics in observational astronomy and time-domain analysis, such as: detection and modeling of exoplanets in Roman microlensing events transiting planet detection and false-positive rejection exoplanet demographics from microlensing and transits microlensing parallax measurements for free-floating and bound planets modeling the Milky Way bulge and disk using Roman and Euclid data detection of black holes through high-resolution imaging and point spread function characterization The position is embedded in a collaborative research environment with multiple actively funded Roman grants at LSU. The researcher is expected to contribute to publications, conference presentations, collaboration meetings, proposal development, and student supervision, while also engaging in training and professional development focused on rigorous and reproducible research. Work may be conducted remotely within the United States, though on-site work at LSU is preferred. National and international travel may also be required.