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Andreas Jeffrey Weiss

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Andreas Jeffrey Weiss's Contact Card & Information.
Email: andreas.j.weiss@nasa.gov
Org Code: 672
Address:
NASA/GSFC
 Mail Code 672
 Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE CO

Brief Bio

Dr. Andreas Jeffrey Weiss is currently a Research Assistant Scientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) working at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center under the supervision of Dr. Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla. Born in Austria, he attained his Bachelor and Master's degree at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) in Switzerland. His PhD was subsequently obtained at the University of Graz in Austria under the supervision of Dr. Rumi Nakamura and Dr. Christian Möstl.


Current research interests include interplanetary coronal mass ejections, with a specific focus on their embedded magnetic field structure and their preceeding sheaths, and space weather forecasting applications.

Research Interests

Magnetic Flux Ropes

Heliophysics: Theory & Modeling

Developer of the unique distorted magnetic flux rope (DMFR) model, which allows for the description of almost arbitrarily complex magnetic flux rope structures. This model is primarily used to describe interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) that are deformed due to their interaction with the solar environment. Other potential applications include solar flux ropes.

Empirical & numerical modeling

Heliophysics: Theory & Modeling

Primary developer & maintainer of the semi-empirical 3D Coronal Rope Ejection (3DCORE) model that is used to describe the magnetic field structure of ICMEs.

Optimal experimental design

Heliophysics: Technology & Missions

Currently developing techniques to optimize multi-spacecraft constellations for the purpose of reconstructing and understanding the geometry and structure of ICMEs or small-scale flux ropes using Bayesian methods.

Positions/Employment

Assistant Research Scientist

University Of Maryland Baltimore County - Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt USA

May 2025 - Present

NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow

NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship, Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, USA

November 2022 - May 2025

PhD Student

Austrian Space Weather Office, Central Institute for Meteorology (ZAMG) - Graz, Austria

September 2022 - October 2022

PhD Student

Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences - Graz, Austria

March 2019 - October 2022

Education

Degrees:

October 2022 Doctoral Degree in Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat.)

November 2018 Master’s Degree in Physics (MSc ETH)

March 2017 Bachelor’s Degree in Physics (BSc ETH)


Institutions:

Sept. 2019 - Oct. 2022 Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Austria, Doctoral Program

Sept. 2013 - Nov. 2018 ETH Zürich, Department of Physics

Awards

2022 - NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship (NPP) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Grants

Investigation on the morphology and magnetic structure of coronal mass ejections in the inner heliosphere

80NSSC25M7101 - NASA (NNH24ZDA001N-HSR) - Awarded: 2025-02-15


Dates:  - 

Coverage: 0.65

Amount $648,922

Publications

Refereed

2024. "Distorted Magnetic Flux Ropes within Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections." The Astrophysical Journal 975 (2): 169 [10.3847/1538-4357/ad7940] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Automatic Detection of Large-scale Flux Ropes and Their Geoeffectiveness with a Machine-learning Approach." The Astrophysical Journal 972 (1): 94 [10.3847/1538-4357/ad54c3] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Global insight into a complex-structured heliosphere based on the local multi-point analysis." Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 10 [10.3389/fspas.2023.1195805] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Redefining flux ropes in heliophysics." Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 10 [10.3389/fspas.2023.1114838] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Writhed Analytical Magnetic Flux Rope Model." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 127 (12): e2022JA030898 [10.1029/2022ja030898] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Multi-point analysis of coronal mass ejection flux ropes using combined data from Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, and Wind." Astronomy & Astrophysics 656 A13 [10.1051/0004-6361/202140919] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Analysis of Coronal Mass Ejection Flux Rope Signatures Using 3DCORE and Approximate Bayesian Computation." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 252 (1): 9 [10.3847/1538-4365/abc9bd] [Journal Article/Letter]

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