Since 2022 mainly Head of the Works Council. Supporting the SOEP team (non scientific) since 1999, now in the area Knowledge Transfer. University training at the universities of Göttingen and Oldenburg and diploma in Social Sciences.
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:...
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...
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...
Researcher / Survey Specialist German Socio-Economic Panel study
Adrián is a Ph.D. student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center and the University of Potsdam since October 2020. He obtained both his Master's and Bachelor's degree at the University of Mannheim. Adrián's research interests lie in the fields of climate and environmental economics, applied microeconometrics and policy evaluation. His current research focuses on the analysis of causes and effects of...
Maximilian Schaller is a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Economics. Following undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering at DHBW, he studied economics in the Master’s programs of RWTH Aachen and FU Berlin. Since October 2021, Maximilian worked as a research assistant at the Public Economics department of the DIW Berlin. During this time, he contributed to research on heterogeneous life...
Clara Schäper joined the DIW Berlin Graduate Center as a PhD student in 2020. She obtained her B.Sc. in Economics at the University of Mannheim and her M.Sc. in Applied Economics with a major in Public Policy and Development (PPD) at the Paris School of Economics (PSE). In her master’s thesis she studied the interdependence between discrimination in hiring and segregation on the firm- and...
Ph.D. Student Gender Economics; Ph.D. Student Public Economics
Rebecca Scheffauer is a postdoc at the DIW in Berlin where she works to improve the quality of survey research. Prior to that she obtained her PhD in Political Science at the University of Salamanca where she was a member of the Democracy Research Unit (DRU). Her research interests cover different forms of political participation as well as the effects of social, online, and traditional media.
Jan-Christopher Scherer is a Research Associate in Forecasting and Economic Policy in the Department of Macroeconomics, where he is responsible for the national accounts. After studying economics at the University of Mannheim (bachelor's degree) and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (master's degree), he earned his doctorate in the Doctoral Program in Economics at the Halle Institute for...
Researcher Macroeconomics; Researcher Forecasting and Economic Policy
Since May 2023, Teresa Schildmann supports the Department of Macroeconomics as Research Associate and is in particular responsible for the coverage of public finance in the forecasting team. Previously, she was in charge of labor market forecasting. After obtaining her bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Bonn, she pursued her doctoral studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt....
Researcher Macroeconomics; Researcher Forecasting and Economic Policy
