Dr. Daniel Graeber is a research associate at the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). He focuses on research activities in the field of well-being and on health-related topics, particularly mental health. Additionally, he conducts research on economic preferences and the economics of self-employment. His work is published in renowned journals such as "Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice", "Journal of...
Alex is a PhD candidate at the DIW Graduate Center, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), and the Berlin School of Economics. He studied Economics at Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam (MPhil) and at the Free University of 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.
Researcher / Survey Specialist 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 focuses on statistical techniques for nonresponse in survey settings, in particular when missingness means something. They are interested in refusal, misdirection, and obfuscation in survey settings, and ethical dilemmas...
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
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
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...
