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...
Researcher / Survey Specialist German Socio-Economic Panel study
Rebecca Scheffauer is a postdoc at the DIW in Berlin where she works to improve the quality of survey research. Prior to that she obtained her PhD in Political Science at the University of Salamanca where she was a member of the Democracy Research Unit (DRU). Her research interests cover different forms of political participation as well as the effects of social, online, and traditional media.
Johannes Schütt works in the area of Survey Methodology and Management of the SOEP. He is jointly responsible for the development of questionnaires and the statistical analysis of survey content and metadata from running and previous survey waves. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Potsdam and a Master's degree in Public Economics from the Free University of Berlin.
Dr. Johannes Seebauer is a postdoctoral researcher in labor economics at the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and lecturer in econometrics at the Berlin School of Economics and the DIW Graduate Center, where he also completed his PhD. He also holds a M.Res. in Economics from Sciences Po Paris and a M.Sc. in Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where he studied as a...
Researcher German Socio-Economic Panel study; Lecturer 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...
Researcher / Survey Specialist German Socio-Economic Panel study
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.
Researcher / Survey Specialist 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...
Researcher / Survey Specialist 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, and...
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...
Researcher / Survey Specialist German Socio-Economic Panel study
Julia Witton joined SOEP in July 2024 as a research assistant in the project CALVI (Video-Interviewing as Part of a Targeted Multimode Design in Household Panel Surveys). She received her M.Sc. in Work, Organizational, and Health Psychology at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2024 and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the Berlin School of Social Sciences (BGSS) of the Humboldt-Universität zu...
After completing his studies in political and social sciences in Heidelberg, Granada and Amsterdam, Mario took up a position as a research assistant and PhD student at DIW. His research involves the quantitative analysis of media data using computational social science methods (NLP, machine learning), and the linking of different types of data. His research interests include the transformation of...
Juliane Zenker focuses on evidence-based policy analysis, drawing on public, labour and gender-economics perspectives. Her work evaluates government interventions in Germany—ranging from employment regulation and family benefits to migration policy—and assesses their effects on labour-market participation, gender equality and distributional outcomes. Previously, she served as a Senior Researcher...
Researcher / Survey Specialist German Socio-Economic Panel study
