Birgit Schneider

Birgit Schneider is Professor of Knowledge Cultures and Media Environments at the Department of European Media Studies, University of Potsdam, Germany. She studied Art and Media Studies as well as Media Art and Philosophy in Karlsruhe, London, and Berlin. After initially working as a graphic designer, from 2000 to 2007 she worked at the research department "The Technical Image" of Humboldt University in Berlin, where she received her doctorate. Since 2009, she has been researching in the context of fellowships at the Department of European Media Studies of the University of Potsdam as well as in Munich, Weimar, and Cambridge (UK). Her current research focuses are images and perceptions of nature, ecology and climate change, diagrams, data graphics and maps, as well as images of ecology. Publications: “The Technical Image” (Cambridge, 2015), “Image Politics of Climate Change” (Bielefeld, 2014), “Klimabilder” (Berlin, 2018). She recently published the platform https://re-imagine-climate.com/.