Julian Axenfeld is Head of the German Social Cohesion Panel (SCP) at SOEP. His research focuses on imputation, nonresponse, and machine-learning methods for survey research. He studied sociology at the University of Mannheim, where he also obtained his doctorate. Prior to his work at DIW Berlin, he worked as a Research Associate at the Socium institute at the University of Bremen and at the...
Head of Social Cohesion Panel German Socio-Economic Panel study
Stefan Bach is research associate at the Public Finance Department at DIW Berlin. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cologne. His research work is focused on empirical public finance, especially taxation, social security, climate policy, distribution of income and wealth, and microsimulation modeling.
Fernanda is a Ph.D. Student and Research Associate at the Climate Policy Department, where she is working on the topic of transition risks in energy-intensive industries related to the economy's shift towards climate neutrality. She studied Public Policy at the Hertie School and Università Bocconi for her Master's degree and completed her Bachelor's degree at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms...
Lukas is a doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center since 2024. He graduated in Industrial Engineering (B.Sc./M.Sc.) at the Technical University of Berlin. His research interests are in the field of energy economics, with a focus on quantitative modeling of infrastructure systems.
Rainer Bartholdt has been Director of the IT and Research Infrastructure Department at DIW Berlin since March 2022. In the past, he has held various positions in the business world as an IT consultant and in corporate IT management, focusing on IT infrastructure, ERP systems, and IT security. Rainer Bartholdt studied computer science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Mattis Beckmannshagen joined the Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) in October 2022. Before, he earned his Ph.D. at Freie Universität Berlin. His research research interests primarily lie in the field of labor economics with a focus on inequality and health. He particularly cares about labor supply preferences, i.e. why people work as much as they do, and what consequences this might have. Further, I am...
Research Associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
Sophie M. Behr joined the DIW Berlin Graduate Center as a PhD candidate in October 2021. Her research interests lie in climate economics and policy, and particularly include circular economy and carbon pricing. Sophie holds a BSc in Economics from the Leuphana University of Lüneburg and a MSc in Economics from the University of Hamburg and spent parts of her studies at the University of Bologna,...
Research Associate Climate Policy; Ph.D. Student Graduate Center
Dr. Kerstin Bernoth is Co-Dean of the Graduate Center at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bonn and worked from 2004 to 2009 as a researcher in the economic policy and research department of De Nederlandsche Bank, the Central Bank of the Netherlands. Her research interests include monetary policy, international economics, financial...
Co-Dean Graduate Center; Research Associate Macroeconomics
Louise Biddle joined the Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) in 2023 as a post-doctoral researcher on the project SUARE (Longitudinal study on refugees from Ukraine in Germany), focusing on aspects of discrimination and health. She holds an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a PhD in Public Health from Bielefeld University. Her research focuses on the social...
Research Associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
