Anna Bindler is Professor of Applied Microeconomics at the University of Potsdam and Head of the Crime, Labour and Inequality Department at DIW Berlin. Her research is in applied microeconomics, with a particular focus on crime, labor and inequality. Her research analyzes the economic and social causes and consequences of illegal behavior, the interaction between labor markets, inequality and...
Karina Böhm has been employed as a research manager at DIW Berlin since September 2023. She gained her long-standing professional experience in science management at Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS) and Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences. Karina Böhm has a background in Communication and Media Studies, Educational Science and Psychology (Leipzig University and...
Temulun is a Ph.D. candidate at Berlin School of Economics and DIW GC. Her research interest is in the field of empirical industrial organization, with a focus on health economics. She obtained her Master's degree in Economics and Finance from the Center for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI). Temulun is also affiliated with the University of Copenhagen as a research assistant.
Nina is a second-year doctoral researcher in the PhD program at DIW Berlin, working within the Macroeconomics Department. As a member of the institute's forecasting team, she focuses on forecasting the German inflation rate and the broader European economy. Her responsibilities include the development and refinement of forecasting models, as well as the interpretation of macroeconomic trends for...
Janina Britzke has been supporting the SOEP team (non scientific) since 2011 and is currently working in the area of knowledge transfer. The sociologist studied at the University of Leipzig and the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and focuses in particular on the topics of organization, coordination and communication at SOEP. She has completed further training in scientific documentation and event...
Dominik Bursy is a doctoral researcher at the Berlin School of Economics and a research associate in the Public Economics Department since 2024. He obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Economics from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, complemented by study abroad periods at the University of Warwick (UK) and ENSAE Paris.
During his studies, he worked in the Department...
Hermann Buslei studied economics at the universities of Munich, Cologne and Bonn. After graduating (Diplom-Volkswirt), he worked as a research associate at empirica, Bonn, a private research and consulting institute (Jan. 1991-Aug. 1994). He interrupted this work for a study with Prof. Konrad Stahl, University of Mannheim, on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Building and Urban Development. From...
Daniela Centemero has been working as a research manager at SOEP since June 2024 and was previously responsible for the selection process in the doctoral program at the DIW Graduate Center since 2015. She studied social sciences at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University of Tampere, Finland.
Research Manager German Socio-Economic Panel study
Dr. Sonali Chowdhry is Research Associate in the Department Firms and Markets. She is an economist specialising in international trade and firm heterogeneity. Her research examines the reallocation effects of trade policy shocks using detailed firm-level customs databases. Alongside academic research, Sonali has contributed to numerous policy studies on mega-regional trade agreements and served as...
Claudia Cohnen-Beck has been editor at DIW Berlin since July 2017 and is responsible for the DIW Weekly Report and DIW aktuell as well as for press inquiries, guest comments and statements. Since April 2021 she has been a member of the DIW Weekly Report editorial board. Previously, she was editor at several daily newspapers.
Astrid Cullmann is senior researcher in the Department Energy, Transportation, and Environment. Her research deals with productivity and regulation of public sector firms. She focuses on municipal state-owned firms in the energy and water sector. Astrid is also Senior Lecturer at the Chair of Econometrics and Business Statistics at TU Berlin. She studied Economics at Free University Berlin and...
Philippa Cumming joined SOEP in 2022 as part of the IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP project ‘Refugees from Ukraine in Germany’. Since 2023, she has been a research assistant in the SUARE project (longitudinal study on refugees from Ukraine in Germany). Here she is involved in data preparation and the integration of annual data into longitudinal datasets. Her research focuses on discrimination, health and...
Researcher / Survey Specialist German Socio-Economic Panel study
Geraldine Dany-Knedlik heads the team of forecasting and economic policy at the DIW Berlin. Geraldine Dany-Knedlik's expertise lies in the areas of international macroeconomics and monetary policy. Special thematic focuses are inflation and monetary policy, spillovers of monetary policy, and the interactions between the business cycles and cycles of income and wealth inequality. Until 2021, she...
Deputy Head of Department Macroeconomics; Head of Division Forecasting and Economic Policy
Thibault has been a Research Associate in the Climate Policy Department since October 2025. His research focuses on electricity markets and industry decarbonisation. He enjoys analysing energy policies through the lens of decision and game theories. In 2025, he completed a doctorate in energy economics at Université Paris Dauphine–PSL, in partnership with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic...
Dr. Sonja Dobkowitz is a researcher at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) in Berlin. She explores how social and economic factors, such as income inequality, demand, or inno-vation, influence the effectiveness of fiscal and climate policies. Her academic career took her to various institutions across Europe and the US. She obtained her degrees in Economics from the University...
Niklas is a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and at DIW Berlin. He holds an M.Sc. in Public Economics and an M.A. in Political Science from Freie Universität Berlin and completed exchange semesters at American University in Washington, D.C., and at Sciences Po Paris. His research interests are in labor economics, public economics, and political economy.
Sascha dos Santos is a research associate in the "Life Course and Inequality" research group and the SOEP Research Infrastructure unit at DIW Berlin. His research focuses on life course dynamics related to wealth and the labour market. Methodologically, he employs modern causal inference and longitudinal data analysis techniques. Prior to joining DIW, he worked at the WZB Berlin Social Science...
Researcher German Socio-Economic Panel study; Researcher Life Course and Inequality
