Dr. Maja Schneider has been a Scientific Associate at the Council of Experts on Climate Change (ERK) since December 2025. She is a research fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU) in the Chair for Physical Geography and Land Use Systems. She previously completed her Master’s degree in Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich, where she also pursued her PhD in machine learning for Earth observation in collaboration with Imperial College London. Her research focused on data related to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Before joining LMU and ERK, she worked as a data scientist in the UK, analysing agricultural and satellite data to support the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs.