Reiss joined the UKDRI in 2024 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Dr. Bhuvaneish Selvaraj & Prof. Siddharthan Chandran's lab. Reiss is using human patient stem cell models (iPSCs) to derive neuron and glia cells for assessing Motor Neurone Disease pathophysiology. Reiss is also using these cells to screen candidate drugs for clinical trialling as part of the MND-SMART programme.   

Prior to joining Reiss worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge. At Cambridge, Reiss was a research lead in Dr. Caroline Williams-Gray & Prof. Roger Barker's lab, and contributed towards several Parkinson's Disease clinical trials. These trials aimed to investigate peripheral versus central immune function as drivers of proteinopathy and disease progression in Parkinson’s disease. 

Reiss received a PhD in Neuroimmunology from the Roslin Institute & College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, an MSc & DIC in Immunology from Imperial College London, and a BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Science from Keele University.