Dr. Andreas Jeffrey Weiss is currently a NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) fellow at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center under the supervision of Dr. Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla. He is originally from Vienna, Austria and attained his Bachelor and Master degrees at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich). His PhD was subsequently obtained at the University of Graz in Austria under the supervision of Dr. Rumi Nakamura. During the time of his PhD, he was working on modeling interplanetary coronal mass ejections and magnetic flux ropes at the Space Research Institute (Austrian Academy of Sciences) under the supervision of Dr. Christian Möstl.
His current research interests focus on interplanetary coronal mass ejections, their accompanying sheaths and the design of corresponding multi-spacecraft missions.