Prof. Dr. Ralph Schneider

Ralph Schneider is Vice President for Internationalisation and Early Career Support at Kiel University, Germany. He serves the European University Alliance SEA-EU rectors´ council. Trained as a marine geologist he worked for more than 30 years in ocean research, focused on past climate change and ocean-continent interactions. Amongst others, he explored Baltic environmental change, executing three seagoing expeditions dedicated to variability in winter sea-ice formation and ventilation. At Kiel University he founded and directed the priority research area Kiel Marine Science (KMS), adressing grand challenges on the ocean´s role in global climate change. With associated Center for Ocean and Society (CEOS) KMS is also forstering the science dialog with stakeholders from business, politics and civil society. Together, with his presidential colleagues, he recently served to submit a university proposal to the German Excellence Initiative called „Connected Horizons – From the Baltic Perspective to Global Impact“.