Neil Murray has been a research associate at the German Institute for Economic Research in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) since 2021. He received his doctoral degree in Economics from Freie Universität Berlin in 2025. His research interests focus on the determinants and economic implications of decision-making under risk and uncertainty. As head of the RDCnet project, which is part of KonsortSWD,...
Researcher / Survey Specialist German Socio-Economic Panel study
As a team assistant, Lars Mussehl supports the DIW works council in all administrative and organizational tasks, including minute-taking, office organization, and project support, such as for events or process optimization. He previously worked for a large project management agency and is currently studying social sciences.
Jana Nebelin take care of the definition of raw data in the SOEP research data center, communication with the survey institute, as well as data input control and integration within a survey year. The processes are controlled with metadata, so she is familiar with all metadata at SOEP. Jana Nebelin also generated the bioresidrefinG dataset as part of the SOEP data.
Researcher / Survey Specialist German Socio-Economic Panel study
Karsten Neuhoff leads the Climate Policy Department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and is Professor at the Institute for Economics and Law of Technical University Berlin. He holds a PhD in Economics from Cambridge University and Master in Physics from Heidelberg University. His research focus on the economics and financing of a low-carbon transformation in the power,...
Verena Neumann has worked as Knowledge Transfer and Communications Officer at SOEP since September 2023. She studied Political Science at the University of Bonn. Between 2012 and 2023, she held several positions in research management, mostly in the field of Economics and Social Sciences (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hertie School, and Berlin University Alliance).
Levent Neyse is a behavioral economist studying how people make economic and social decisions. His research uses surveys and experiments to explore preferences, beliefs, and decision-making processes. He also works on meta-scientific topics such as measurement, replicability, and research transparency in the social sciences. He leads the SOEP Innovation Sample at DIW Berlin and is the co-PI of the...
Researcher / Survey Specialist German Socio-Economic Panel study
Rebecca earned her bachelor's degree in economics and political science from the University of Potsdam, during which time she worked as a student assistant in the department of Public Economics at the DIW. She then completed an internship at the Bundesbank in the area of banking and financial supervision, before going on to complete her Master's degree in Economics at Freie Universität Berlin....
Laura joined the DIW Berlin in 2018. She completed her PhD within the DIW Graduate Center and at Freie Universität Berlin and works as a Research Associate in the Macroeconomics department. Already during her doctoral studies, she contributed to the DIW's economic forecasts, where she is responsible for analyzing and forecasting investment activity in Germany. Her research interests include...
Researcher Macroeconomics; Researcher Forecasting and Economic Policy
Roxane Pauli is the equal opportunities intern at DIW Berlin. She studies Sociology and Gender Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her master's thesis focuses on the diversity strategies of six Berlin-based organizations. She also holds a master's degree in Sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences) in Paris, where she...
Specialist for market and social research since 2014. Expert for data processing and verifying. Work council member since 2022. Author of the Stata SOEPhelp tool.
Knarik Poghosyan is a research associate in the Entrepreneurship Research Group at DIW Berlin. She obtained a Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of Dortmund. Her research work is focused on innovation and regional economics, entrepreneurship, public policy analysis, and applied microeconometrics.
Paula has been a PhD student at the DIW Graduate Center since October 2022 and has been working in the Climate Policy Department since October 2023. She holds a BSc in Business Administration from Hamburg School of Business Administration (HSBA) and a MSc in Economics from Friedrich-Alexander-University in Nuremberg (FAU). During and after her bachelor studies, she gained first-hand experience in...
Alessia is a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and DIW Berlin. She completed her MSc in Economic and Social Sciences at Bocconi University. During her studies, she worked as a research assistant in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University and spent four months as a trainee at the European Commission in Brussels. Before starting her PhD, she worked as a...
