Uwe Kils (born July 10, 1951 ) is a German marine biologist specializing in planktology. He received a Habilitation and the venia legendi in marine and fisheries biology from the University of Kiel.

Born in Flensburg in Schleswig-Holstein, he studied at the Institute of Oceanography at the University of Kiel under Gotthilf Hempel, informatics and photography. His Ph.D. work on the metabolism and behavior of krill , for which he participated in an expedition to Antarctica, won him the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize in 1979. It also led to the development of various instruments for in situ observation of the underwater fauna for field research, including the ecoSCOPE designed by him. Later work at Kiel included the study of predator-prey interactions of juvenile herring and plankton, for which a floating laboratory called ATOLL was developed and deployed in the Bay of Kiel. Work there led to the discovery of severe case of oxygen depletion and to Kils' involvement in an initiative to repopulate the Flensburg Fjord with herring as part of the project "Saubere Ostsee" ("Clean Baltic"). His work was honored by the Heisenberg Fellowship and Bioscience Price of the VOLKSWAGEN FOUNDATION. He is founder and president of the private blank">KINDER UNIVERSITAET

Subsequently, Kils was invited by the INSTITUTE OF MARINE AND COASTAL SCIENCES at _Rutgers University, where he became a tenured associate professor in 1994 helping to set up a blank">"Virtual Institute for Marine Sciences" at Tuckerton with online underwater cameras via fibre optic cables. He programmed the virtual microscope and developed an in situ microscope. He worked with glasseels and created the web server eelBASE.

Kils retired in _2005 from RUTGERS and is now living at New York as aquarelle painter and photographer still active setting up on-line courses in oceanography and marine biology at projects like Wikiversity http://de.wikiversity.org/wiki/Institut_Ozeanographie.