Heike Link is Head of the Transportation Research Team. She joined DIW in 1992 after studies in Mathematical Economics and a PhD thesis on dynamic input-output models. Her research interest is the econometric analysis of issues mainly in transport infrastructure. Heike has been in charge for a variety of national and international research and consultancy projects on infrastructure issues, the...
Research Associate Energy, Transportation, Environment
From Januar 2012 to December 2016, Helmut Lütkepohl was Dean of the DIW Berlin Graduate Center and Bundesbank Professor in the field of "Methods of Empirical Economics" at the Freie Universität Berlin. Before that, he was Professor of Econometrics at the European University Institute in Florence (2002-2011) and the Faculty of Economics at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (1992-200...
Jan Málek is a PhD student at the DIW Graduate Center and KU Leuven and was a researcher in the Department of Firms and Markets until he joined E.CA Economics in July 2022. His research interests relate primarily to the empirical industrial organisation and competition policy. He completed his Bachelor in Economics at the Charles University in Prague, having spent one semester as a visiting...
Dr. Catherine Marchewitz is a senior researcher in the Climate Policy Department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). Her research focuses on the transformation of the economy towards climate neutrality, sustainable finance and international climate finance. Currently she works on the further development and use of climate-related scenarios in various industry sectors and by...
Dennis Meiser-von Schmädel has been working as an online editor at DIW Berlin since 2011. In addition to the editing of the website and the social media channels of the institute, the focus of his work is the production of video blogs, the supervision of livestreams of events and the creation of self-portrayal publications. He is the contact person for the scientists in the areas of corporate...
Lorenz Meister joined the DIW GC as a PhD student in 2020. Since 2021, he has been a research associate at the SOEP and the International Economics Department. In his research, he explores the political economy of crisis interventions, and resulting distributional effects. With his research he wants to promote and shape evidence-based policy. Lorenz worked for the OECD, the United Nations...
Ph.D. Student German Socio-Economic Panel study; Research Associate International Economics
Lukas Menkhoff is the Head of the Department of International Economics at DIW Berlin, Professor of Economics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and member of the finance group at HU Berlin. His research focus is on International Finance and Financial Development.
Previously, Lukas Menkhoff served as a professor at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (joint appointment with the Kiel...
Juliane Metzner is the team assistant at the Graduate Center since 2014. She is the secretary of the dean and is the contact person for all DIW doctorals in administrativ matters.
Since 2022 she is also the Team Assistant for the Macroeconomics departement.
Team Assistance Graduate Center; Team Assistance Macroeconomics
Mariza Montes de Oca León is a is a Ph.D. student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center. Her current research interests are centered around the interaction between the natural resource curse in fossil-fuel abundant economies and climate change mitigation policy.
Prior to joining the Graduate Center, Mariza worked at ICAP, the International Carbon Action Partnership, focusing on emissions...
