Ralph Schneider is the new Vice-President of Kiel University

Professor Ralph Schneider is a marine geologist and climate researcher. He holds various offices at Kiel University: He is the director of the Institute of Geosciences, where he heads the Paleooceanography and Paleoclimate workgroup. He is also the head of the Leibniz Laboratory for Radiometric Dating and Stable Isotope Research and director of the Kiel Marine Science (KMS) priority research area, which he co-founded and has led since 2011.

He began his scientific career by studying geology and palaeontology at the TU Braunschweig, Kiel University and the University of Bremen until he obtained his diploma. After a DAAD scholarship at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in New York, USA, he completed his dissertation summa cum laude at the University of Bremen in 1991. He completed his habilitation (postdoctoral lecture qualification) in geology and palaeontology at the Faculty of Geosciences at the University of Bremen in 2000. In 2002, he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Bordeaux in France and was subsequently appointed Professor of Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology at the University of Bordeaux for the first time from 2003 to 2004. He has been Professor of Marine Geology and Paleoclimate Research at the CAU since 2005. As part of his research projects, he has been the scientific leader of nine internationally staffed ship expeditions off the coasts of Africa, South America, Canada and in the Baltic Sea. In addition to his research, he has been involved in academic self-administration, including as Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and as a senator at the CAU.