Professor Schneider is the British Heart Foundation Simon Marks Professor of Regenerative Cardiology and Director of Imperial's BHF Centre for Research Excellence (2008-2019). He is the recipient of a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant, the 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award of the American Heart Association Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences, the 2008 Medical Futures Cardiovascular Innovation Award, the 2010 Duke Medical Alumni Award, the 2011 Annual Clinical School Lecture at Cambridge, the 2011 Mikamo Lectureship of the Japanese Circulation Society, and the 2012 Jeffrey Isner Memorial Lecture at Tufts University. 

He currently serves on peer-review panels for the Wellcome Trust and ERC, is a Governor of the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, and serves as a member of the MRC Council (2008-2016).