RWTH: Carolin Victoria Schneider Listed on Forbes

The US business magazine has compiled a list of the 30 most important personalities under the age of 30 in the field of “Science and Healthcare” in Europe.

The US magazine Forbes, one of the most successful business magazines in the world, compiles highly respected annual rankings that focus on the world’s most influential people in various disciplines. The magazine was founded by Bertie Charles Forbes in 1917, and it has now published the Forbes “Science and Healthcare” list, which ranks the 30 most important personalities in this field under the age of 30 in Europe. RWTH Professor Carolin Victoria Schneider is the only German scientist on this list.

Schneider is Junior Professor of Prevention and Genetics of Metabolic Diseases of the Liver, Department of Gastroenterology, Metabolic Diseases and Internal Intensive Care Medicine (Medical Clinic III). As a scientist and medical doctor, the 28-year-old is dedicated to developing effective prevention and treatment strategies for metabolic diseases. She has recently been named Young Scientist of the Year 2023 by academics, the career portal for science, research, public affairs, and society of the ZEIT publishing group. She received this award for her research into mechanisms in the human body that contribute to metabolic diseases.

Schneider and her husband came to RWTH Aachen University from the University of Pennsylvania through the NRW returnee program, with which the state aims to encourage outstanding scientists to return home. She was in Pennsylvania on the Walter Benjamin Program of the German Research Foundation, having previously completed her doctorate under Professor Strnad at the Medical Clinic III. Her doctorate dealt with mutations of a gene that can cause liver and lung diseases. Last year, she was also appointed to the “Junges Kolleg” of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities, and the Art.