Leonid Schneider (born 1977) is a Ukrainian-German science journalist and molecular cell biologist.
[1] Schneider was born to a Jewish family in Zhytomyr, Ukraine,[2] and moved to Germany to attend university.
[2] He was a doctoral candidate at the university clinic in Cologne 2003–2007 and subsequently a postdoctoral researcher at the Fondazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare in Milan 2008–2012, the Technische Universität Darmstadt 2012–2013 and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research 2014–2015.
[5] Schneider has occasionally been sued over his blog posts; for example by a German scientist couple, in connection with the scandal around Paolo Macchiarini.
[6] More recently, he has been involved in legal disputes brought by Didier Raoult,[7] Jan van Deursen[8] and Gabrio Bassotti.