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 a Research Associate in the Climate Policy Department since October 2023. She holds a BSc in Business Administration from the Hamburg School of Business Administration (HSBA) and an MSc in Economics from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). Her research focuses on electricity market design,...
Alessia is a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and a research associate in the Crime, Labor and Inequality Department 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...
Thomas joined DIW Graduate Center as a PhD candidate in October 2022. Since October 2023, he is working in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) division. His research focus lies on the consequences of and remedies to German spatial economic inequality. Before joining SOEP, Thomas worked at the OECD, at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, and -- thus closing the circle -- at SOEP.
Prof. Dr. Malte Rieth is research associate to the Department of Macroeconomics and Professor of Monetary Economics at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He was a strategist in the financial sector and received his PhD from the Technische Universität Dortmund. His research focuses on Business Cycles and Macroeconomic Policy. He has published in the American Economic Journal:...
Researcher Macroeconomics; Researcher Forecasting and Economic Policy
Denise Rolle completed her apprenticeship as a Skilled Worker for Market and Social Research at DIW Berlin in January 2026 and now works at the SOEP Research Data Center. There, she assists with data preparation and data verification and conducts the annual user survey.
Alexander is a postdoctoral research associate in the department of energy, transportation, environment. He works on the decarbonization of the energy sector, using numerical and empirical methods. His research focuses on power market flexibilities, sector coupling, such as heat, and societal challenges of the energy transition. He obtained his PhD in economics from the Technische Universität...
Marie Rulliere is a PhD student at the DIW Graduate Center. Her research interests lie in labor economics and macroeconomics. After completing her Master’s degree, Marie worked for four years at the French Treasury (Ministry of Economy and Finance) and then spent two years in the Macroeconomics Department at DIW Berlin. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Paris-Dauphine University...
Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics; Ph.D. Student Forecasting and Economic Policy
As of January 1, 2022, Denise Rüttinger is DIW Berlin’s new managing director. Previously, she was head of administration at the Leibniz Center for Contemporary History Potsdam (Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam, ZZF). She has also previously worked for the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP) and the Karlsruhe...
Claudia Saalbach is a research associate in the Data Operation and Research Data Center at SOEP.She studied sociology in Konstanz and Potsdam and was a research associate at the Chair for Methods of Empirical Social Research at the University of Potsdam and at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam.In her research, she is interested in metadata in the survey life cycle as...
