Livia is a PhD candidate at the DIW Graduate Center and the Berlin School of Economics since 2026. She holds a BSc in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University, an MSc in Economics and Public Policy from the Barcelona School of Economics and an MSc in Economics from Humboldt University. Before starting her PhD she worked as an economics consultant at Lear in Rome, contributing to...
Sophie is a Ph.D. candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and DIW Berlin. Her field of research interest is structural public policy models where she works on topics of the mechanisms of labor supply in the intersection between public economics, family economics and labor economics. She holds a MSc in Economics from University of Copenhagen. During her studies she has worked as a Research...
Nadja has been a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and DIW Berlin since October 2026. She holds bachelor’s degrees in Business Administration and Economics from the University of Bayreuth and a master’s degree in Economics from Freie Universität Berlin. During her studies, she worked as a student assistant in the Macroeconomics Department at DIW Berlin and at the Price Lab at...
Maria has been a doctoral candidate at the DIW Graduate Center since October 2026. She holds a master's degree in Information Systems Management from TU Berlin. During her studies, she worked as a research assistant in the Workgroup for Economic and Infrastructure Policy at TU Berlin and in the Energy, Transportation, and Environment Department at DIW Berlin. Her research interests focus on energy...
Gisela is a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and the DIW Berlin, a research assistant at the University of Zurich and Director of the Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN). She holds a BA in Business and Economics from the University of Zurich and an MSc in Statistics and Information Management from NOVA University Lisbon. Before starting her PhD, she worked as a...
Amrei has been a doctoral researcher at DIW Berlin since October 2026. She holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Freiburg and a Master's degree from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). During her studies, she gained research experience in climate, energy, and environmental economics, including through a pre-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Bologna, the DFG...
Frederik von Waldow has been a PhD candidate at the DIW Graduate Center since 2026. He studied economics at the University of Bonn (M.Sc.) and the Toulouse School of Economics, after completing a B.Sc. in Politics and Economics at the University of Potsdam. During his studies, he worked as a student research assistant in the Energy, Transportation, Environment Department at DIW Berlin. His...
Ines is a doctoral candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and the DIW Graduate Center since 2026. She holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Freiburg and a M.Sc. in Public Economics from Freie Universität Berlin. During her studies, she worked as a student assistant at the Socio-Economic Panel at DIW Berlin, as an intern at the Leibniz-Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) in...
