Arianna Antezza has been a doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center and the Berlin School of Economics since October 2024. She is part of the Gender Economics research group in the Public Economics Department. Before starting her PhD, she worked as a Financial Stability Analyst at the European Central Bank. She earned her Master’s in Economics from the Barcelona School of Economics. Prior to...
Ph.D. Student Public Economics; Ph.D. Student Gender Economics
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...
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.
Leo is a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and DIW Berlin. He received his MSc in Economics from University College London and his undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford. His research interests lie in empirical industrial organisation and competition policy.
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...
Sophie M. Behr joined the DIW Berlin Graduate Center as a PhD candidate in October 2021. Her research interests lie in environmental and energy economics and climate policy, with a particular focus on building sector darbonization and its distributional implications, circular economy and carbon pricing. Sophie holds a BSc in Economics from the Leuphana University of Lüneburg and a MSc in Economics...
Dr. Kerstin Bernoth is 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...
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...
