Andrea Donnellan is a principal investigator at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

[2][3] She studied at Ohio State University, University of Southern California, and California Institute of Technology.

[4][5] In 1996 she was a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers[6] From 1998 to 2015, she taught at the University of Southern California.

She teaches at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

She is a member of the editorial board[7] of the Earth and Space Science journal.