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...
Andrea Marchitto is a research associate at SOEP and has been working on the SUARE project (Longitudinal Study of Refugees from Ukraine in Germany) since 2023. He studied political science at the Free University of Berlin. His research interests include health, discrimination, and integration of migrants into the German society, with particular focus on refugees and their families.
Sonja is a doctoral student at the DIW Berlin since 2025. She holds a master's degree in economics from the University of Helsinki and a bachelor's degree in economics and business administration from Aalto University in Finland. Her research interests fall in the areas of inequality, public economics, and political economy.
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. Mariel is Project Coordinator for the Surveying Panel Participants’ Network Members: Integration of Egocentric Data Collection and Respondent-Driven...
Dennis Meiser-von Schmädel works in the area of online communications. His focus is on editing the institute's website and intranet. He also oversees the production of video blogs, podcasts, and livestreams. He is the contact person for accessibility issues.
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 had research stays at the World Inequality Lab at Paris School of Economics (2025), at Harvard’s Opportunity Insights Lab (2024), and at the Department of Political Economy at King's College. He...
Lukas Menkhoff is Research Associate in the Socio-Economic Panel 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 was head of...
Felix Mergenhagen has been a doctoral researcher at the DIW Graduate Center since 2025. He holds a Master’s degree from Duke University and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Hamburg. His research explores how access to energy and transportation infrastructure shapes economic development and welfare, combining micro-empirical methods with spatial and infrastructure modeling.
Dr. Cristóbal Moya is a researcher at SOEP investigating how people understand and respond to social and economic inequalities. Current projects focus on status disadvantages and fairness preferences, beliefs about gender inequality in labor markets, and the social legitimacy of redistribution. He uses a variety of methods, including survey experiments, computational text analysis, and panel data...
Anna-Tabea Müller is a specialist in market and social research at the SOEP. Since 2022 she has been working for the project German Social Cohesion Panel (SCP), which analyses social cohesion in Germany in cooperation with the University of Bremen.
Ina Müller works as a coordinator at the Graduate Center. She is the first point of contact for doctoral students and provides them with administrative support. Ina also organises GC events and is responsible for internal and external communication.
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