Timm Bönke heads the team of Forecasting and Economic Policy at DIW Berlin joint with Geraldine Dany-Knedlik. Timm Bönke’s expertise lies in the areas of labor market economics and public economics.- In particular he works on the long-term development and distribution of income and wealth, the design and incentive structure of welfare state institutions, as well as the evaluation and optimization...
Head of Forecasting and Economic Policy Macroeconomics
Franziska Bremus is a Research Associate in the Department of Macroeconomics and leader of the project “European capital markets and macroeconomic stability”. After finishing her Master’s degree in economics in Tübingen and Montréal, she joined the DIW Graduate Center. During her dissertation, Franziska worked in the Departments of Forecasting and Macroeconomics. She finished her dissertation on ...
-From 1975 to 1983 study of sociology, national economics, statistics and philosphy at the Free University of Berlin. M. phil. in sociology.From 1983 to 1985 Research Associate at the Research Institute „Social Economy of Labor“ (FU Berlin).Since 1985 Research Associate at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW).
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...
Staff Member of the Division Knowledge Transfer German Socio-Economic Panel study
Laura Buchinger is a Ph.D. candidate in the SOEP’s “GRD-past and mental health: risk and protection factors” project since October 2019. Laura’s main research interests concern major life goals and personality as well as determinants of wellbeing and she is member of the Junior Research Group SocPsych-MH.
For the past three years, she worked as organizational psychologist for a consulting company...
Research Associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
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...
Dr. Adriana R. Cardozo Silva has been working as a postdoctoral researcher at SOEP since October 2021 as part of the project "Refugee Families in Germany" (GeFam2). Currently, her research focuses on the integration of migrants and refugees in Germany, in particular their integration into the education and health system as well as into the labor market. Previously, Ms. Cardozo conducted research...
Research Associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
Since 2015 Application Officer at the DIW Graduate Center: Organization of the selection process of PhD candidates, consulting and support for applicants during the selection process. 2004: Diploma in Socioeconomics (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and University of Tampere/ Finland)
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 an...
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.
Dr. Carina Cornesse is Head of the Innovation Sample as well as the Social Cohesion Panel (SOEP-related study ZHP-FGZ) at the SOEP. She conducts research on data quality and innovative data collection techniques in surveys. Her research focuses on the recruitment and maintenance of panel studies, the benefits and limitations of probability-based and nonprobability samples, the application of mixed...
Head of SOEP Innovation Sample & Social Cohesion Panel German Socio-Economic Panel study
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...
Research Associate Energy, Transportation, Environment