A true self-motivator, Andreas joined his school’s Chemistry Team, landed a research internship at the University of Maryland, and has earned another research position in an atmospheric chemistry laboratory at NASA, Goddard. At the University of Maryland, Andreas was asked to co-author a paper on mesoscale solubilization. He believes that scientific literacy should be improved, and he is the director and founder of a tutoring organization in which high school students tutor middle school students.