Johannes Loschnigg is currently a professional staff member for the House of Representatives Committee on Science (Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee), where he is responsible for issues related to the International Space Station, as well as NASA’s Earth Sciences, Biological and Physical Research.

From 2003-2004, he was a professional staff member for Senator Joseph Lieberman on the Senate’s Governmental Affairs Committee, where he was responsible for issues related to cyber-security, homeland security, and environmental oversight. Prior to that, Loschnigg worked as a AAAS Congressional Science and Technology Policy Fellow in Senator Liebermann’s personal office, covering science and technology issues, including wireless broadband and spectrum, energy and environment, climate change, semiconductor manufacturing, nanotechnology, federal science R&D, cyber-security, homeland security and defense S&T. From 1998-2002, he was affiliated with the University of Hawaii, where he initially worked as post-doctoral fellow and later became a member of its research faculty. In addition, he held positions as graduate research and scientific assistant at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the NASA Ames Research Center, the Department of Physics at the University of Freiburg in Germany, and the Department of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Loschnigg holds a B.A. in Physics and International Relations from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and both a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in Astrophysical, Planetary and Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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