Biography
Dr. Uwe A. Schneider is an agricultural and resource economist with a strong background in agricultural science. His research interests relate to land use externalities regarding climate, water, soils, and nature reserves; impacts of land scarcity on food, biomass, timber, and species protection potentials; and market and welfare effects of environmental policies related to land use. Uwe has a decade long expertise in mathematical programming with Generalized Algebraic Modelling System (GAMS) and developed, coordinated, and supervised several large-scale optimization models of various scopes in the realm of agriculture, forestry, bioenergy, and fisheries.
Uwe grew up on a farm in a small village in the Eastern Ore Mountains about 20 km south of Dresden. After his high school education and the mandatory military service, he briefly worked for large farm cooperatives in East Germany. He then studied crop husbandry at Humboldt University, Berlin. In 1994, he went to College Station to study plant breeding and genetics at Texas A&M University. Within the first two weeks of his 1-year stay, he switched to Agricultural Economics. While pursuing a Master's Degree at TAMU, he began to be interested in integrated forest and agricultural sector analysis. He added a comprehensive greenhouse gas emission module to the US agricultural sector model. The application of the new Agricultural Sector and Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas (ASMGHG) model to study important policy questions resulted in his dissertation and several follow-up publications. Since 2002, Uwe works at Hamburg University where he teaches courses on mathematical programming, dynamic optimization, agriculture and environment, GAMS, and the European Forest and Agricultural Sector Optimization Model (EUFASOM). He is the principle developer of EUFASOM and most of his current research uses this model or contributes to its development. Uwe was a contributing author to the IPCC's fourth assessment report. He serves as regular reviewer for a wide variety of academic journals and research funding proposals and he is actively engaged in two International Max-Planck Research Schools.
Education
Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics (2000)
Department of Agricultural Economics
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Specializations: resource economics, mitigation of climate change
Dissertation Title: "Agricultural Sector Analysis on Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation in the U.S."
Advisors: Dr. Bruce A. McCarl (Chair), Dr. James M. Mjelde, Dr. Ronald C. Griffin, Dr. Thomas W. Boutton
Dipl-Ing. Agr. in Soil and Crop Science (1996)
Faculty of Horticultural and Agricultural Science
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Advisor: Prof. Dr. sc. Frank Pohlheim
Thesis title: "Quantitative analysis of intra-individual tissue competition at various stages of cell differentiation" German
M.S. in Agricultural Economics (1995)
Department of Agricultural Economics
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Advisors: Dr. Bruce A. McCarl (Chair), Dr. Thomas Knight, Dr. Frederick W. Plapp
Project title: "Economic Implications of the Boll Weevil Eradication"
Vordiplom in Agriculture (1991)
Faculty of Horticultural and Agricultural Science
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Advisor: Dr. Dirk Freese
Project title: "Capacity limits of phosphate absorption in soils" (in German)
Abitur (1987)
Skilled Worker Certification as Agriculturist (1987)
Vocational School of VEG Pesterwitz
Dresden, German Democratic Republic
High School Diploma (1984)
Nikolai-Ostrowski High School
Dippoldiswalde, German Democratic Republic
Affiliations
Hamburg University
Research Unit Sustainability and Global Change
Departments of Geosciences and Economics
Hamburg, Germany
Research Group Leader (October 2005 - present)
Interim Professor (October 2008 - present)
Acting Director (September 2005 - February 2006, July 2006 - present)
Assistant Professor (October 2002 - September 2008)
University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences
Vienna, Austria
Visiting Professor (January 2010)
International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs
Hamburg, Germany
Member of Board of Directors (February 2006 - present)
International Max-Planck Research School for Earth System Modeling
Hamburg, Germany
Member of Executive Committee (December 2005 - present)
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Forestry Program
Laxenburg, Austria
Research Associate (January 2004 - present)
Iowa State University
Center for Agricultural and Rural Development
Ames, IA, USA
Post Doctoral Research Associate (March 1996 - June 2000)
Texas A&M University
Department of Agricultural Economics
College Station, TX, USA
Research Associate (September 1998 - May 2000)
Research Assistant (September 1997 - August 1998)
Teaching Assistant (September 1996 - August 1997)
Graduate Student (September 1996 - May 2000)
Humboldt University
Faculty of Horticultural and Agricultural Science
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Graduate Student (September 1991 - August 1994, September 1995 - April 1996)
Undergraduate Student (September 1989 - August 1991)