Prof. Andrew Chen was born in New York City, USA in 1970. After receiving his PhD in Physics from Columbia University in 1997 and a postdoctoral fellowship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center working on analysis of data from the EGRET telescope aboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatoryv, he moved to Milan, Italy to work on AGILE, the Italian Space Agency gamma-ray space telescope. He moved to South Africa in 2013 to become part of the Astrophysics group in the School of Physics at Wits. Prof Chen's field of research is observational multiwavelength, multimessenger and high-energy astrophysics. He is a member of international collaborations such as AGILE, Fermi, H.E.S.S., KM3NeT, and CTA.