assessor juris (Esq.) ; doctoral thesis concerning German Constitutional/Broadcast Law
LL.M. at Boston Univ. (Mass./USA)
former experience: Berlin media law office; public broadcast station in Frankfurt (a.M.); scientific employee at University of Applied Sciences and the Institute for European Media Law in Saarbrücken/Brüssel (EMR); in-house lawyer for a newspaper publishing company in...
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
Lotte has been a doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center since October 2023. Her research focuses on income and wealth inequality, with a particular focus on real estate ownership and its role in wealth distribution and accumulation. Lotte has a Master's degree in Economics from the Free University of Berlin and studied economics at the Humboldt University of Berlin. From 2019 to 2023 she...
Tana is a doctoral student at the Graduate Centre. She started out at the DIW in May 2023 as a predoc at the Entrepreneurship Research Group. She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Nottingham and a Master’s Degree in International Economics from the University of Tübingen. Her research interests predominantly relate primarily to applied...
Dr. Mariel McKone Leonard is a researcher with more than ten years’ experience in mixed methods survey research. She specializes in research with small, rare, and vulnerable populations, as well as conducting research within sensitive contexts. In addition to her work at SOEP, she leads survey projects at the Universities of Maryland (UMD) and Munich (LMU). Prior to joining DIW, Mariel was a...
Interim Head of SOEP Innovation Sample German Socio-Economic Panel study
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 is a PhD student at the DIW Graduate Center and a research associate at the Socio-Economic Panel. His research focuses on political economy, with an emphasis on threats to democracy. He previously worked for the OECD, the United Nations, and the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy. In 2024, he was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard’s Opportunity Insights Lab, invited by...
Lukas Menkhoff is Senior Research Associate in the Department of Macroecomics at DIW Berlin, Professor (em.) of Economics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and member of the Finance Group at HU Berlin. His research focus is on International Finance, in particular foreign exchange markets, and Financial Development, including the impact of financial education, for example in Africa.
Until 2023 he...
