The IAPG section of Germany
Welcome to the IAPG section of Germany!
The section is officially established on 13 December 2021 and will work under the responsibility of Simon Schneider (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) and Dominic Hildebrandt (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and ETH Zurich).
The section is based at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
IAPG-Germany is the 35th national section of our Association.
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| Simon Schneider |
Simon Schneider earned his degree in geophysics from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, where he also worked in science communication and education in the departments of earth sciences. He participated in international research projects as a scientist and media relations specialist, was a volunteer park ranger in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, conducted research at Lake Bosumtwi in Ghana, and aboard the research vessel MS Sonne in the southern waters of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. For more than a decade, Simon Schneider was Public Outreach Manager of the GEOTECHNOLOGIES research and development program in Potsdam. He was co-editor of the online magazine The Euroscientist, studied public relations part-time at the University of Management and Communication UMC Potsdam, and earned a PhD in communication sciences at the Freie Universität Berlin. Simon Schneider was a member of the AGU Outreach Committee as well as a representative for public relations, political communication and education on the AGU Fall Meeting Program Committee – currently, he is a member of AGU’s Honors & Recognition Committee. He was a teacher of geography and ethics, conducted teacher training in earth and environmental sciences and courses on fundraising and marketing at a vocational school in Berlin. He also supported the press office of the University of Potsdam as a writer and consultant an received the Potsdam Award for Science Communication WISPop in 2021. After managing the Earth and Environmental Systems research focus at the University of Potsdam, Simon is now working full-time at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, where he is a member of the concept team for a new geoscience exhibition. His research interest is in intercultural science communication and the transfer of indigenous and traditional knowledge into decision making.
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| Dominic Hildebrandt |
Dominic Hildebrandt received his Bachelor's degree in Geosciences with a focus on Geology and Paleontology from the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich and the Technical University Munich in 2020. He is now studying in the Master's degree program Earth Sciences with a major in Geology at ETH Zurich. Dominic is Vice President of the student representative board in the Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich. Furthermore, he is engaged in the umbrella organization of all German-speaking student representatives in the Geosciences called GeStEIN. Within this student network he co-leads a working group on Diversity, Equality and Ethics in Geosciences. He is advisory board member and student representative in the German Professional Association of Geoscientists (BDG), where he actively works on the topics Geoscience university education and Geoethics. Dominic is interested in the educational development of study programs and is actively sharing his expertise in external quality assessment procedures of study programs.
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