Robin has been a doctoral student in the DIW Graduate Center since October 2020. He obtained a Master’s Degree in Economic and Social Sciences from Bocconi University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Mannheim. Moreover, he studied one semester at Chinese University of Hong Kong and spent the second year of his Master as a Visiting Student at the PhD Program in Economics...
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...
Research Associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
Virginia is a research associate in DIW's research group Gender Economics since October 2020. She joined the Berlin School of Economics as a PhD student in 2019. She holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and a BSc in Economics and Business Administration from Goethe University, Frankfurt. Before her doctoral studies, Virginia gained two years of professional experience in...
Research Associate Gender Economics; Ph.D. Student Public Economics
Barbara started working at the SOEP Division Applied Panel Analysis in September 2021, supporting the Leibniz ScienceCampus within the subproject SOEP RegioHealth. Before joining DIW Berlin, Barbara worked at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, in the research group Health Economics & Health Policy. She did her masters degree in economics at the Vienna University of Economics and...
Ruben Staffa is a researcher in the Macroeconomics Department, where he is responsible for data infrastructure and data preparation in the forecasting unit at DIW Berlin. He received his bachelor's degree in economics from the Free University Berlin and his master's degree in money and finance from Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. At the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Halle (IWH)...
Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
As a survey statistician, I contribute to the field of survey methods with my expertise in sampling, analyzing, and weighting complex survey data, and multiple imputation of missing values.
Survey Statistician German Socio-Economic Panel study
Caroline Stiel has been a research associate at DIW Berlin since 2013. Her research focuses on entrepreneurship, firm productivity, public infrastructure services, and new advances in empirical methods. Caroline Stiel received her PhD in November 2018 from Technische Universität Berlin. Her dissertation analyses the productivity of municipal energy and water utilities in Germany in the light of...
Research Associate Energy, Transportation, Environment
Leon joined the DIW Graduate Center in October 2022 and is a PhD candidate in the climate policy department. In his research, he focuses on sustainable finance and energy economics. Leon holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and economics from the Goethe University Frankfurt and a master's degree in economics from the University of Cologne. For his master's thesis, Leon compared...
Xi Sun is a PhD student at the Berlin School of Economics. She holds a M.Sc. in economics from the University of Bonn and B.Scs. in Public Finance from Xiamen University and International Business and Economics from the University of Magdeburg. During her studies, she gained insights into bilateral climate cooperation between Germany and China through her internship and consultancy work at GIZ...
Felix Süttmann works at the DIW since 2022. He is a survey statistician within the team responsible for weighting and sampling. His primarily responsibility is for the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Sample of Refugees, where he provides stand-alone weights for all refugees. However, he is also involved in the estimation of nonresponse adjustment factors for the whole SOEP and works with ML tools to improve their...
Data Scientist / Survey Statistician German Socio-Economic Panel study
Yogam Tchokni has been a PhD student at the DIW Graduate Center since 2021 and is a research associate at the Socio-Economic Panel. He completed his M.Sc. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics at the London School of Economics. Previously, he worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Mannheim and as a Data Scientist. His research focuses on topics of migration, discrimination, and...
Mia Teschner is a research associate in the Public Economics Department. She is a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and the Free University Berlin. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from the University of Potsdam and a master’s degree in economics from the Free University Berlin. Mia's research interests lie in the fields of labor economics, health...
