Postdoctoral Associate - Rice Space Institute

The Center for Planetary Origins to Habitability (CPO2H: https://www.origins2habitability.rice.edu/) of the Rice Space Institute (RSI) is seeking applications for a postdoctoral associate position to conduct independent research that advances the center's scientific mission. The center's areas of interest span a broad range of topics, including the formation and evolution of planetary systems, the origin, delivery, distribution, and cycling of life-essential elements on planets, the interaction between planets and their host stars, comparative planetology, processes and properties of planetary interiors, the physical and chemical interactions between the interiors and planetary surface environments, planetary surface processes, Earth history to understand evolution of planetary systems, the emergence of life, and coupled evolution of life and planetary environments.