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Job Summary

The Research Associate will lead the analysis of the SPHEREx cosmological large-scale structure survey. They will lead the development of power spectrum and bispectrum estimator, and validate the overall methodology on numerical simulations.

Essential Job Duties

• Develop power spectrum and bispectrum estimators and validate their performance, first in simulations and then on the real data. 
• Simulate the effects of known systematic errors on these estimators. 
• Write scientific publications on this work. 
• Analyze the SPHEREx galaxy redshift survey for constraints on cosmological parameters, and report on the results and the statistical and systematic errors in publications.

Basic Qualifications

• PhD in physics, astronomy or astrophysics with an extensive post-PhD background in cosmological analysis in large-scale structure surveys.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Must work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary technical and scientific teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong background in statistical analysis methods. 
• Familiarity with the formats and instrumental properties of the SPHEREx data products. 
• Background in computational methods and numerical analyses.
   

Required Documents

• Resume