Louise Biddle joined the Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) in 2023 as a post-doctoral researcher on the project SUARE (Longitudinal study on refugees from Ukraine in Germany), focusing on aspects of discrimination and health. She holds an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a PhD in Public Health from Bielefeld University. Her research focuses on the social...
Anna Bindler is Professor of Applied Microeconomics at the University of Potsdam and Head of the Crime, Labor 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 crime...
Honorata Bogusz has been a visiting scholar in the Gender Economics research group since October 2026. She is an assistant professor at the University of Warsaw. She holds a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and is spending a year at DIW Berlin as a Humboldt Fellow. Her research focuses on topics in the fields of labor economics, gender economics, and family demography.
Researcher Public Economics; Research associate Gender Economics
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).
Since 2023, Nina is a 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...
Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics; Ph.D. Student Forecasting and Economic Policy
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...
Sophie is a Ph.D. candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and DIW Berlin. Her field of research interest is structural public policy models where she works on topics of the mechanisms of labor supply in the intersection between public economics, family economics and labor economics. She holds a MSc in Economics from University of Copenhagen. During her studies she has worked as a Research...
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 of...
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...
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
