Till is a PhD-candidate at DIW Graduate Center and in the Climate Policy department of DIW. He holds a Master in Economics (Economic Theory and Econometrics) from Toulouse School of Economics and a Bachelor in Sociology, Politics & Economics from Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen. Furthermore, he has experience from internships in different sectors (e.g. at KfW Development Bank, at the...
Carl has joined the DIW as a doctoral student in October 2023. Prior to joining DIW, he worked as an analyst at the Monopolies Commission, conducting empirical research related to the energy crisis in Europe. He obtained both a master’s and a bachelor’s degree in economics from University of Mannheim, specializing in applied econometrics, industrial organization, and energy economics. After...
Cornelia Kristen supports the Socio-Economic Panel in the research area of migration and integration.Her main occupation is professor of sociology, in particular social structure analysis, at the University of Bamberg.
Senior Research Fellow German Socio-Economic Panel study
Alexander Kritikos is scientific member of the executive board of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) since May 2021 and research director of the research group on ‘Entrepreneurship’ since 2011. Before he was head of the Department ‘Innovation, Manufacturing, Service' since 2008 and Vice-President since 2010. He is appointed as Full Professor for Industrial and Institutional...
Dr. Thilo Kroeger is scientific advisor and postdoctoral researcher in the Firms and Markets Department. His research focuses on international economics, labor economics, and development economics. More specifically, he studies producer-level responses to globalization and the effects of structural change on labor demand and workers. Before joining DIW Berlin, he was a senior economist on the...
Yashna is a doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center since 2025. She holds an MSc degree in Economics from the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Delhi. Her research interests lie in climate policy and environmental economics.
Jo-Ya joined the DIW Graduate Center and the macroeconomics department in 2023. She holds a master’s degree in Economics from the University of Mainz with a specialization in International Economics. Her master’s thesis examined the policy implications and potential risks of introducing central bank digital currencies. In 2023, she interned at the ifo Center for International Economics in Munich....
Frederik Kurcz is a doctoral student at the Macroeconomics Department and at the Berlin School of Economics (Freie Universität Berlin). His research studies monetary and fiscal policy transmission with household heterogeneity. His job market paper, “Quantifying the Fiscal Channel of Monetary Policy,” combines new evidence on fiscal responses to monetary shocks with a Heterogeneous Agent New...
Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics; Ph.D. Student Forecasting and Economic Policy
Antonia Kurz is a Research Associate in the Climate Policy Department. Her research focuses on the decarbonisation of industrial sectors, developing tools to reduce emissions in the context of trade and market power. Her work includes studying the effects of carbon pricing policies on trade patterns and the implications of monopolistic supply in critical minerals markets for the green transition....
Philipp Lersch is Associate Professor of Sociology of Social Policy in the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and research group leader at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). His main research interests are in social inequalities over and between life courses of individuals in divergent institutional contexts focusing on the family, wealth, and...
Research Group Leader „Life Course and Inequality“ German Socio-Economic Panel study; Head Life Course and Inequality
assessor juris (Esq.) -
doctoral thesis re German Constitutional Law and cultural responsibilities of the State
LL.M. at Boston Univ. (USA)
former experience:
Berlin media law firm
- legal employee at the Hessische Rundfunk (public broadcaster) in Frankfurt am Main
- scientific employee at the Brunswick European Law School at the Ostfalia in Brunswick/Wolfenbuettel and at the Institute...
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
