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.
Claudia Saalbach is a research associate in the Data Operation and Research Data Center at SOEP.She studied sociology in Konstanz and Potsdam and was a research associate at the Chair for Methods of Empirical Social Research at the University of Potsdam and at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam.In her research, she is interested in metadata in the survey life cycle as...
Research Associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
2016 bachelor's degree in sociology and gender studies at the University of Konstanz, 2021 master’s degree in sociology and statistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2016-2021 assistant scientist at the Bavarian Graduate Panel of the IHF in Munich, research projects mainly on the subjects of higher edcation research (social selectivity in educational transitions and career patterns...
Research Data Center, Data Science German Socio-Economic Panel study
Jürgen Schupp studied Economics and Sociology in Mainz and Frankfurt am Main, completing his diploma in Sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt in 1983. He then took over a position as Junior Research Associate at the University of Frankfurt in the German Research Foundation's Special Research Unit "Microanalytic Foundations of Social Policy" (Sfb 3) At the end of 1984, he...
Senior Research Fellow German Socio-Economic Panel study
Johannes Seebauer is a Ph.D. candidate at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center. Following undergraduate studies in Management in Regensburg, he obtained a M.Sc. in Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where he studied as a Fulbright scholar. He also holds a M.Res. in Economics from Sciences Po Paris. In his Master thesis, he used individual-level data from the Socio...
Ph.D. Student German Socio-Economic Panel study; Ph.D. Student Graduate Center
Dr. Elena Sommer works as a survey manager in the SUARE project (Longitudinal Study of Ukrainian Refugees in Germany). Prior to her move to SOEP, she worked at the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and at the European Social Survey (ESS) in the questionnaire development and survey operations. She studied geography in Cologne and Birmingham and received her PhD in social...
Research Associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
Barbara started working at the SOEP Division Applied Panel Analysis in September 2021, supporting the Leibniz ScienceCampus within the subproject SOEP RegioHealth. Before joining DIW Berlin, Barbara worked at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, in the research group Health Economics & Health Policy. She did her masters degree in economics at the Vienna University of Economics and...
As a survey statistician, I contribute to the field of survey methods with my expertise in sampling, analyzing, and weighting complex survey data, and multiple imputation of missing values.
Survey Statistician German Socio-Economic Panel study
Felix Süttmann works at the DIW since 2022. He is a survey statistician within the team responsible for weighting and sampling. His primarily responsibility is for the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Sample of Refugees, where he provides stand-alone weights for all refugees. However, he is also involved in the estimation of nonresponse adjustment factors for the whole SOEP and works with ML tools to improve their...
Data Scientist / Survey Statistician German Socio-Economic Panel study
Yogam Tchokni has been a PhD student at the DIW Graduate Center since 2021 and is a research associate at the Socio-Economic Panel. He completed his M.Sc. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics at the London School of Economics. Previously, he worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Mannheim and as a Data Scientist. His research focuses on topics of migration, discrimination,...
Francesca joined the DIW Berlin Graduate Center as a PhD candidate in October 2022. She holds a BSc in Economics and Business from the University of Milan-Bicocca and a MSc in Economics from the Catholic University of Milan. Prior to joining the DIW, Francesca worked as a trainee at the Competence Centre on Microeconomic Evaluation of the Joint Research Centre in Ispra and at the International...
At the SOEP Research Data Center, Knut Wenzig takes care of tools for capturing, translating and outputting metadata and supports data management with active metadata. He is also responsible for informations on occupations and industry in the datasets and trains specialists in market and social research. He has been a member of the programme committee of the European DDI Users Conference since 201...
Member of Research Infrastructure German Socio-Economic Panel study