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
Timm Bönke heads the team of Forecasting and Economic Policy at DIW Berlin joint with Geraldine Dany-Knedlik. Timm Bönke’s expertise lies in the areas of labor market economics and public economics.- In particular he works on the long-term development and distribution of income and wealth, the design and incentive structure of welfare state institutions, as well as the evaluation and optimization...
Co-Head Macroeconomics; Co-Head Forecasting and Economic Policy
Temulun is a Ph.D. candidate at Berlin School of Economics and DIW GC. Her research interest is in the field of empirical industrial organization, with a focus on health economics. She obtained her Master's degree in Economics and Finance from the Center for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI). Temulun is also affiliated with the University of Copenhagen as a research assistant.
Ph.D. Student Firms and Markets; Scholarship Recipient
From 1975 to 1983 study of sociology, national economics, statistics and philosphy at the Free University of Berlin. M. phil. in sociology.From 1983 to 1985 Research Associate at the Research Institute „Social Economy of Labor“ (FU Berlin).Since 1985 Research Associate at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin).
Janina Britzke has been supporting the SOEP team (non scientific) since 2011 and is currently working in the area of knowledge transfer. The sociologist studied at the University of Leipzig and the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and focuses in particular on the topics of organization, coordination and communication at SOEP. She has completed further training in scientific documentation and event...
Staff Member of the Division Knowledge Transfer German Socio-Economic Panel study
Laura Buchinger is a Ph.D. candidate in the SOEP’s “GRD-past and mental health: risk and protection factors” project since October 2019. Laura’s main research interests concern major life goals and personality as well as determinants of wellbeing and she is member of the Junior Research Group SocPsych-MH.
For the past three years, she worked as organizational psychologist for a consulting company...
Research Associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
Theresa Bührle is a research associate in the Public Economics Department. She studied business administration at the University of Mannheim and received her doctorate in taxation in 2022. In her research, she uses empirical methods to examine the economic effects of tax policy, with a focus on innovation and loss offset. A second focus is on tax planning and distribution effects in the context of...
Hermann Buslei studied economics at the universities of Munich, Cologne and Bonn. After graduating (Diplom-Volkswirt), he worked as a research associate at empirica, Bonn, a private research and consulting institute (Jan. 1991-Aug. 1994). He interrupted this work for a study with Prof. Konrad Stahl, University of Mannheim, on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Building and Urban Development. From...
Dr. Adriana R. Cardozo Silva has been working as a postdoctoral researcher at SOEP since October 2021 as part of the project "Refugee Families in Germany" (GeFam2). Currently, her research focuses on the integration of migrants and refugees in Germany, in particular their integration into the into the labor market. Previously, Ms. Cardozo conducted research on the economic and social impacts of...
Research Associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
Since 2015 Application Officer at the DIW Graduate Center: Organization of the selection process of PhD candidates, consulting and support for applicants during the selection process. 2004: Diploma in Socioeconomics (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and University of Tampere/ Finland)
Sonali Chowdhry is Research Associate in the Department Firms and Markets. She is an economist specialising in international trade and firm heterogeneity. Her research examines the reallocation effects of trade policy shocks using detailed firm-level customs databases. Alongside academic research, Sonali has contributed to numerous policy studies on mega-regional trade agreements and served as an...
Claudia Cohnen-Beck has been editor at DIW Berlin since July 2017 and is responsible for the DIW Weekly Report and DIW aktuell as well as for press inquiries, guest comments and statements. Since April 2021 she has been a member of the DIW Weekly Report editorial board. Previously, she was editor at several daily newspapers.
