Alex is a PhD candidate at the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Berlin School of Economics. He studied Economics at Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam (MPhil) and at Freie Universität Berlin (B.Sc.). His research interests lie in applied microeconomics, especially in the topics labor, education, and inequality.
In the survey management of the SOEP, Florian Griese compiles the survey instruments from the research interests of the scientists, the requirements and potentials of longitudinal data processing, the current legal regulations in Germany and the framework conditions with the survey institute.
Research associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
Char Hilgers is a PhD student in Sociology at the Humboldt University's Berlin Graduate School of Social Science, funded by the Socio-Economic Panel at DIW Berlin. Their research is on statistical techniques for nonresponse in survey settings: when missingness means something. From multiple imputation for handling missing not at random, to the data integration of probability and non-probability...
Bettina Hünteler is a research associate in the DECIPHE research project at DIW Berlin. Her research focuses on social inequality, such as wealth or health in the context of kinship and migration, with a particular emphasis on the life course approach. Methodologically, she uses advanced quantitative methods such as sequence and cluster analysis, and multi-level models. Before joining DIW, she...
Researcher German Socio-Economic Panel study; Researcher Life Course and Inequality
Lisa Klein is a doctoral researcher in the DECIPHE research project and the "Life Course and Inequality" research group at DIW Berlin. Her research explores social stratification, wealth, and poverty through a life-course perspective. Before joining DIW, she worked on the INTERVERM project at Humboldt University Berlin, which examined the intergenerational reproduction of wealth inequality.
Ph.D. Student Life Course and Inequality; Ph.D. Student German Socio-Economic Panel study
Simon Kleineweber is Research Manager at the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Before joining DIW Berlin in March 2021, he worked as a scientific coordinator at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and as a research associate in interdisciplinary labour studies at European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). Simon studied Sociology, History and European Politics in Bielefeld,...
Research Manager German Socio-Economic Panel study
Alex Lepe joined the SOEP as a postdoctoral researcher in February 2025. He holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Epidemiology from the University Medical Center Groningen. His research focuses on health inequalities, with particular attention to how social and structural factors shape population health. At DIW, his work spans projects on pandemic...
Philipp Lersch is Associate Professor of Sociology of Social Policy in the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and research group leader at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). His main research interests are in social inequalities over and between life courses of individuals in divergent institutional contexts focusing on the family, wealth, and...
Head Life Course and Inequality; Researcher German Socio-Economic Panel study
Lotte Maaßen is a PhD student at the DIW Graduate Center and the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Her research interests are in the area of wealth and income inequality. Current research projects focus on the role of inheritances and parental background for the distribution of wealth in Germany and on gender gaps in capital incomes. Lotte has a master's degree in economics from Freie Universität...
Marianna Magagnoli is a postdoctoral researcher at the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) since September 2025. She holds a PhD from the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB). Her research lies at the intersection of urban, transport, and environmental economics. In particular, she studies the implications of improving environmental friendliness in cities on real...
Andrea Marchitto is a research associate at SOEP and has been working on the SUARE project (Longitudinal Study of Refugees from Ukraine in Germany) since 2023. He studied political science at the Free University of Berlin. His research interests include health, discrimination, and integration of migrants into the German society, with particular focus on refugees and their families.
Dr. Mariel McKone Leonard is a researcher with more than ten years’ experience in mixed methods survey research. She specializes in research with small, rare, and vulnerable populations, as well as conducting research within sensitive contexts. Mariel is Project Coordinator for the Surveying Panel Participants’ Network Members: Integration of Egocentric Data Collection and Respondent-Driven...
