Julian Axenfeld is the Coordinator of the German Social Cohesion Panel (ZHP-FGZ) at the 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 current position, he worked as a Research Associate at the Socium institute at the University of Bremen...
Research Associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
Stefan Bach is research associate at the Public Finance Department at DIW Berlin and lecturer at Potsdam University. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cologne. His research work is focused on empirical public finance, especially taxation, social security, distribution of income and wealth, and microsimulation modeling.
Guido Baldi joined DIW Berlin in 2012. He holds a phd in economics from the University of Bern. His main research interests lie in "international macroeconomics" and "political economy".
Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
In October 2023, Fernanda joined the DIW Graduate Center as a Ph.D. student. Previously, she worked as a predoctoral researcher at the Climate Policy Department of DIW Berlin on the topic of transition risks in the economy's shift towards climate neutrality, focusing on legislative and regulatory initiatives in Sustainable Finance and European Climate Policy. She studied Public Policy at the...
Rainer Bartholdt has been Director of the 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.
Sebastian joined the Berlin School of Economics as a PhD student in 2019. He obtained a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. Degree in Economics from the University of Bonn. During his studies, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Applied Microeconomics and the briq Institute on Behavior and Inequality, as well as a teaching assistant at the Institute for Finance and Statistics at the University...
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
Lea Bernhardt is a research associate in the Firms and Markets Department. Her research topics and work areas are empirical industrial economics, competition policy as well as platform and media economics. She received her PhD in Economics from Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg. Previously, she completed her MSc at the University of St Andrews and her BSc at Johannes Gutenberg University in...
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Bernoth is Deputy Head of the Department Macroeconomics and Vice 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...
Vice Dean of Graduate Studies Graduate Center; Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy