Dr. Andreas Walker is a meteorologist, author, science journalist and enthusiastic weather photographer. He studied geography, meteorology and photography at the University and ETH Zurich.

During and after his studies he participated in several scientific projects and expeditions. In 1992 he completed his doctoral thesis on exceptional thunderstorms in our latitudes.

Since 1994 he has been working as a freelance science journalist, giving courses and lectures on meteorology at schools, companies etc. and is the owner of an image agency with over 100,000 self-made images of nature and weather phenomena.