Geraldine Dany-Knedlik heads the team of forecasting and economic policy at the DIW Berlin. Geraldine Dany-Knedlik's expertise lies in the areas of international macroeconomics and monetary policy. Special thematic focuses are inflation and monetary policy, spillovers of monetary policy, and the interactions between the business cycles and cycles of income and wealth inequality. Until 2021, she...
Head of Forecasting Department Macroeconomics; Head Forecasting and Economic Policy
Angelina Hackmann supports the Department of Macroeconomics as Research Associate and is in particular responsible for the coverage of the labour market in the forecasting team. She received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics in finance and industry from TU Braunschweig and her master’s degree in economics from Osnabrück University. She pursued her doctoral studies at the University of Bremen....
Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
Konstantin A. Kholodilin was born in 1973 in Saint-Petersburg (Russia). He had graduated from the Saint-Petersburg State University in 1995. In 2003, he obtained his doctor title from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) and in 2012 a title of Doctor habilitatus from the Europa-Universität Viadrina (Germany). From 2001 till 2004, he was a researcher at the Université Catholique de Louvain...
Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
Frederik Kurcz is a PhD student at the Berlin School of Economics and a research associate in the macroeconomics department. After first completing a B.Sc. in Economics and Business at the University of Hohenheim, Frederik studied Economics in the Master's program at the University of Tübingen with a semester abroad at Queen's University, Canada. During his studies, he worked at the Tübingen Chair...
Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics; Ph.D. Student Forecasting and Economic Policy
Laura joined the DIW Graduate Center in 2018 and the Forecasting and Economic Policy Department in 2019.
After completing a B.Sc. Psychology at the University of Heidelberg, Laura obtained her B.Sc. Economics from the Free University Berlin, where she also worked as a research and teaching assistant at the chair of econometrics. Based on her bachelor’s dissertation, she published an article on...
Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics; Ph.D. Student Forecasting and Economic Policy
Jan-Christopher Scherer is a Research Associate in Forecasting and Economic Policy in the Department of Macroeconomics, where he is responsible for the national accounts and heading the German forecast. After studying economics at the University of Mannheim (bachelor's degree) and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (master's degree), he earned his doctorate in the Doctoral Program in...
Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
Since May 2023, Teresa Schildmann supports the Department of Macroeconomics as Research Associate and is in particular responsible for the coverage of the labour market in the forecasting team. After obtaining her bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Bonn, she pursued her doctoral studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Previous professional positions were at the German...
Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
Before joining the DIW GC Ben studied at the Free University of Berlin where he graduated with a M.Sc. in Economics. During his studies Ben worked as a student assistant in the European Parliament, the German Minimum Wage Commission and in the macroeconomics department of the DIW. From May 2018 to December 2020 Ben took a break from his studies to work in the International Policy Analysis division...
Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
Fabian Seyrich obtained his bachelor degree in Economics from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Throughout his bachelor studies he held tutorials in Microeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics and Mathematics for Economists. Fabian continued with the master in Economics at the Freie Universität Berlin which included an exchange semester at the University of Melbourne. During his...
Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
Ruben Staffa is a researcher in the Macroeconomics Department, where he is responsible for data infrastructure and data preparation in the forecasting unit at DIW Berlin. He received his bachelor's degree in economics from the Free University Berlin and his master's degree in money and finance from Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. At the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Halle (IWH)...
Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
Kristin is a PhD candidate of the 2021 cohort at the DIW Graduate Center. She obtained both, the bachelor’s degree in Political Economics and the master’s degree in Economics at the University of Heidelberg. During her studies, she worked as a teaching assistant at the chair of Empirical economics as well as a student assistant at the ZEW (Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research). Prior...
Ph.D. Student Graduate Center; Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
Jana Wittich is a Ph.D. student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center and a research associate in the Macroeconomics Department. She holds two Bachelor degrees in Governance and Public Policy and European Studies from the University of Passau, with a specialization in Economics, Global Governance and Political Science. During her studies, she spent two semesters at the University of Nantes, France....
Ph.D. Student Graduate Center; Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy