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.
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,...
Research associate 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 is the Deputy Head of the Data Operation and Research Data Center Division at SOEP. Within the Research Data Center, she is responsible for defining raw data, coordinating communication with the survey institute, and overseeing data input control as well as data integration both within and across survey years. The underlying processes are managed through metadata, giving her...
Deputy Head of the SOEP Division German Socio-Economic Panel study; Research associate 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...
Research associate German Socio-Economic Panel study; Head of SOEP-IS 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...
