Biography of Bjarni Tryggvason

Bjarni Tryggvason works as a meteorologist with the cloud physics group at the Atmospheric Environment Service (now the Meteorological Service of Canada) in Toronto.

He serves as a research associate in industrial aerodynamics at the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory at Western University.

Tryggvason is a guest research associate at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan.

He is a guest research associate at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia.

Bjarni Tryggvason lectures in applied mathematics at Western University.

He works as a research officer at the Low Speed Aerodynamics Laboratory at the National Research Council of Canada.

Tryggvason lectures at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University.

He is selected in December as one of the original six Canadian astronauts and trains as a backup payload specialist for the CANEX-2 experiments.

Bjarni Tryggvason flies as a payload specialist aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-85, testing the Microgravity vibration Isolation Mount-2 (MIM‑2) (for which he was the principal investigator) and performing fluid science experiments.

Tryggvason takes part in NASA mission specialist training at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. His class undergoes two years of physical and academic training, and is the first group of astronauts to be trained as both mission specialists for the Space Shuttle and as potential crewmembers for the International Space Station (ISS).

He serves at NASA as a crew representative for the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory, used to test Shuttle flight software prior to onboard use. He also supports integrated simulations on the ISS Training Facility at Johnson Space Center, and serves as a Canadian Space Agency (CSA) representative on the NASA Microgravity Measurement Working Group and on the ISS Microgravity Analytic Integration Team.

He works in the private sector while on leave from the CSA.

Tryggvason returns temporarily to the CSA and holds the position of visiting professor at Western University.

He retires from the CSA.