He is also a world expert in the area of wavelet based methods for computer graphics.

from MIT's Media Lab in 1990, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton University in 1994 under the supervision of Pat Hanrahan.

He did his undergraduate work at Technische Universität Berlin in computer science and pure mathematics.

Schröder is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, a Sloan Fellowship, a Packard Fellowship, and in 2015 was elected as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

He is also the recipient of the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award in 2003.