Postdoc position at CEA Paris-Saclay : participation in the French JWST/MIRI expertise center

The Postdoc will develop the following activities:
- Reduction and analysis of data from observations with the JWST and in particular the MIRI instrument. Publication of results
- Optimisation of reduction methods; comparison of different analytical methods.
- Respond to requests from astrophysicists for the use of ETC, APT and for MIRI data reduction.

The mission of the post-doc will be:
- for 50% of the time, to exploit scientifically the JWST in one of the following themes: exoplanets, star formation, supernova, nearby galaxies, evolution of galaxies;
- for 50% of the time, to optimize data reduction and analysis of data obtained with the MIRI instrument and to provide assistance to astrophysicists for their observation proposals or for the reduction of MIRI data.

The host laboratory is the AIM (Astrophysics Instrumentation Modelisation) laboratory. It is located at CEA Paris-Saclay, a research centre located 25 km south-west of Paris and part of the Université Paris-Saclay. Approximately 200 people participate in AIM activities that include instrumental developments, including space missions, data analysis and interpretation, and modelling, from numerical simulations on massively parallel computers. The laboratory is involved in most of Astrophysics's major space missions (in operation: SOHO, INTEGRAL, XMM, Fermi, Solar Orbiter, JWST; in development: EUCLID, SVOM, Plato, Ariel, Athena). and also in instrumentation for ground-based telescopes (VLT/VISIR, APEX/ARTEMIS, ELT/METIS, CTA, ...). In particular, the laboratory has been heavily involved in the development of MIRIm, the imager for the JWST's MIRI instrument. In order for the French community to benefit from the expertise acquired, a centre of expertise has been created. The candidate will be assigned to this centre. He or she will have at his or her disposal a laptop, will have access to the computer means of the laboratory (recent Cluster of 1792 hearts) and will benefit from a budget for collaborative missions and to participate in conferences.