Lotte has been a doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center since October 2023. Her research focuses on income and wealth inequality, with a particular focus on real estate ownership and its role in wealth distribution and accumulation. Lotte has a Master's degree in Economics from the Free University of Berlin and studied economics at the Humboldt University of Berlin. From 2019 to 2023 she...
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. In addition to her work at SOEP, she leads survey projects at the Universities of Maryland (UMD) and Munich (LMU). Prior to joining DIW, Mariel was a...
Interim Head of SOEP Innovation Sample German Socio-Economic Panel study
Lorenz Meister joined the DIW GC as a PhD student in 2020. Since 2021, he has been a research associate at the Socioeconomic Panel. His research is in the field of political economy, with special focus on threats to democracy. Previously, he worked for the OECD, the United Nations Secretariat, and the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy. Since January 2024, he has been a Visiting...
Neil Murray has been a research associate at the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) since April 2021 and is part of the Konsort SWD project "Building a Network of Secure Guest Research Workplaces". He received his M.Sc. in Economics at the Free University of Berlin, where he is currently working as a doctoral student. Besides his university studies, he worked as a student assistant in the Department of...
Research Associate 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.
Member of Research Infrastructure 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).
Knowledge Transfer and Communications Officer 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.
Specialist for market and social research German Socio-Economic Panel study
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.
Member in the division Knowledge Transfer German Socio-Economic Panel study
Thomas has been a doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center since October 2022. Since October 2023, he is working in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) division. His research focus lies on economic inequalities and their effects on voting behaviour. Before joining SOEP, Thomas worked at the OECD, at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, and -- thus closing the circle -- at SOEP.
