Jun.-Prof. Dr rer. nat. Matti Schneider studied Applied Mathematics at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg from 2004 - 2009 and graduated with honours. In 2009, he received a doctoral scholarship from the International Max Planck Research School at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig. After completing his doctorate at Leipzig University in 2013, he worked as a research assistant at Chemnitz University of Technology and the Fraunhofer ITWM Kaiserslautern. Since 2017, Matti Schneider has held the Junior Professorship for Computational Micromechanics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.