Wolf-Peter Schill is leading the research area “Transformation of the Energy Economy” in the Department Energy, Transportation, Environment at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). After studying environmental engineering at TU Berlin and Macquarie University Sydney, he obtained a doctoral degree in energy economics at TU Berlin. His research focuses on renewable energy, energy...
Head of Division Energy, Transportation, Environment
Renke Schmacker is a Research Associate at the DIW Berlin and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. Before joining DIW, he spent three years as an SNF Senior Researcher at the University of Lausanne. He received his PhD from the Berlin School of Economics in 2020 and previously studied at Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Copenhagen, and Leuphana University Lüneburg. His research...
Laura joined the Energy, Transport, Environment department as a postdoctoral research associate in July 2023. She conducts research at the intersection of environmental and social policy, with a particular interest in the effects of air pollution on citizen's lives, including their health and human capital. Previously, Laura completed her PhD at FU Berlin and DIW's Graduate Center and worked in...
Carsten Schröder heads the Applied Panel Data Analyses division of the Socio-Economic Panel and is a Professor of Economics with a focus on Empirical Economics at Freie Universität Berlin. His main areas of interest lie in public finance and social policy. He primarily investigates economic inequalities and the effects of government interventions in the economy. He has published articles in the...
Head of Division German Socio-Economic Panel study
Ben studied at the Free University of Berlin, where he also finished his PhD om 2025 while also being a member of the DIW GC. He subsequently joined the macroeconomics department of DIW as a postdoctoral researcher. During his studies Ben has worked at the European Central Bank, the European Parliament and the German Minimum Wage Commission. His research interests lie in the field of monetary and...
Researcher Macroeconomics; Researcher Forecasting and Economic Policy
Johannes Schütt works in the area of Survey Methodology and Management of the SOEP. He is jointly responsible for the development of questionnaires and the statistical analysis of survey content and metadata from running and previous survey waves. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Potsdam and a Master's degree in Public Economics from the Free University of Berlin.
Dr. Franziska Schütze is Senior Researcher and deputy head of the climate policy department at DIW Berlin. Since 2020 she is coordinator of the project "sustainable finance research platform". Her research aims at understanding economic implications of climate and energy policies and the role of the financial sector. This includes the assessment of climate-related risks and opportunities and the...
Anastasiia Sedova is a doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center since 2025. Her research interests lie in energy and environmental economics. Anastasiia earned her Bachelor's degree from Higher School of Economics, Moscow, and her Master's degree from the University of Heidelberg with a DAAD scholarship. Prior to joining DIW, Anastasiia gained experience as a research assistant at Leibniz...
Dr. Johannes Seebauer is a postdoctoral researcher in labor economics at the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and lecturer in econometrics at the Berlin School of Economics and the DIW Graduate Center, where he also completed his PhD. He also holds a M.Res. in Economics from Sciences Po Paris and a M.Sc. in Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where he studied as a...
Researcher German Socio-Economic Panel study; Lecturer Graduate Center
Hannah Seidl is a postdoc in the department of macroeconomics and leads the world forecasting team. Hannah obtained her Ph.D. from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin where she has also earned a B.A. in Social Science and a B.Sc. in Economics. She holds a M.Sc. in Economics from Freie Universität Berlin. Hannah's research interests focus on fiscal and monetary economics and its distributional effects...
Researcher Macroeconomics; Researcher Forecasting and Economic Policy
Fabian Seyrich is a research associate in the Macroeconomics Department at DIW Berlin and Assistant Professor of Macroeconomics at the Institute of Economics at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Free University of Berlin, a Master's degree in Economics from the Free University of Berlin and a Bachelor's degree from the Albert-Ludwigs-University of...
Researcher Macroeconomics; Researcher Forecasting and Economic Policy
Dr. Elena Sommer works as a survey manager in the SUARE project (Longitudinal Study of Ukrainian Refugees in Germany). Prior to her move to SOEP, she worked at the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and at the European Social Survey (ESS) in the questionnaire development and survey operations. She studied geography in Cologne and Birmingham and received her PhD in social...
Researcher / Survey Specialist German Socio-Economic Panel study
