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...
Lorenz Meister is a PhD student at the DIW Graduate Center and a research associate at the Socio-Economic Panel. His research focuses on political economy, with an emphasis on threats to democracy. He had research stays at the World Inequality Lab at Paris School of Economics (2025), at Harvard’s Opportunity Insights Lab (2024), and at the Department of Political Economy at King's College. He...
Lukas Menkhoff is Research Associate in the Socio-Economic Panel at DIW Berlin, Professor (em.) of Economics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and member of the Finance Group at HU Berlin. His research focus is on International Finance, in particular foreign exchange markets, and Financial Development, including the impact of financial education, for example in Africa.
Until 2023 he was head of...
Dr. Cristóbal Moya is a researcher at SOEP investigating how people understand and respond to social and economic inequalities. Current projects focus on status disadvantages and fairness preferences, beliefs about gender inequality in labor markets, and the social legitimacy of redistribution. He uses a variety of methods, including survey experiments, computational text analysis, and panel data...
Anna-Tabea Müller is a specialist in market and social research at the SOEP. Since 2022 she has been working for the project German Social Cohesion Panel (SCP), which analyses social cohesion in Germany in cooperation with the University of Bremen.
Neil Murray has been a research associate at the German Institute for Economic Research in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) since 2021. He received his doctoral degree in Economics from Freie Universität Berlin in 2025. His research interests focus on the determinants and economic implications of decision-making under risk and uncertainty. As head of the RDCnet project, which is part of KonsortSWD,...
Researcher / Survey Specialist German Socio-Economic Panel study
Jana Nebelin take care of the definition of raw data in the SOEP research data center, communication with the survey institute, as well as data input control and integration within a survey year. The processes are controlled with metadata, so she is familiar with all metadata at SOEP. Jana Nebelin also generated the bioresidrefinG dataset as part of the SOEP data.
Researcher / Survey Specialist German Socio-Economic Panel study
Verena Neumann has worked as Knowledge Transfer and Communications Officer at SOEP since September 2023. She studied Political Science at the University of Bonn. Between 2012 and 2023, she held several positions in research management, mostly in the field of Economics and Social Sciences (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hertie School, and Berlin University Alliance).
Levent Neyse is a behavioral economist studying how people make economic and social decisions. His research uses surveys and experiments to explore preferences, beliefs, and decision-making processes. He also works on meta-scientific topics such as measurement, replicability, and research transparency in the social sciences. He leads the SOEP Innovation Sample at DIW Berlin and is the co-PI of the...
Researcher / Survey Specialist German Socio-Economic Panel study
Rebecca earned her bachelor's degree in economics and political science from the University of Potsdam, during which time she worked as a student assistant in the department of Public Economics at the DIW. She then completed an internship at the Bundesbank in the area of banking and financial supervision, before going on to complete her Master's degree in Economics at Freie Universität Berlin....
Specialist for market and social research since 2014. Expert for data processing and verifying. Work council member since 2022. Author of the Stata SOEPhelp tool.
Since 2022 mainly Head of the Works Council. Supporting the SOEP team (non scientific) since 1999, now in the area Knowledge Transfer. University training at the universities of Göttingen and Oldenburg and diploma in Social Sciences.
