Alexandra Schneider PhD

Dr. Alexandra Schneider holds both a diploma degree in Meteorology and a master's degree in Public Health from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. In 2004, she finished her PhD in Human Biology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. Thereafter, she worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, in the Research Group “Epidemiology of Air Pollution Effects”. Since 2010 she has been head of the Research Group “Environmental Risks” within the Institute of Epidemiology of the Helmholtz Zentrum München.

Dr. Alexandra Schneider’s research interests in epidemiology are split into two different fields. The first touches upon the influence of weather and climate changes on human health, while the second is in the field of particulate and gaseous air pollution and its influence on the human organism with a focus on cardiovascular diseases. Together with the adverse health effects of noise and the beneficial effects of green and blue space as well as further population vulnerability and susceptibility factors, she broadly covers the topic of “urban health”.