Carsten Schröder is Head of the Division of Applied Panel Data Analyses | Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin and Professor of Public Economics and Social Policy at Freie Universität Berlin. His main research interests are public economics and social policy, in particular, distributional economics, pension economics, and policy evaluation. He has published papers in the Journal of Public...
Board of Directors SOEP and Division Head Applied Panel Analysis German Socio-Economic Panel study
Before joining the DIW GC Ben studied at the Free University of Berlin where he graduated with a M.Sc. in Economics. During his studies Ben worked as a student assistant in the European Parliament, the German Minimum Wage Commission and in the macroeconomics department of the DIW. From May 2018 to December 2020 Ben took a break from his studies to work in the International Policy Analysis division...
Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
Jürgen Schupp studied Economics and Sociology in Mainz and Frankfurt am Main, completing his diploma in Sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt in 1983. He then took over a position as Junior Research Associate at the University of Frankfurt in the German Research Foundation's Special Research Unit "Microanalytic Foundations of Social Policy" (Sfb 3) At the end of 1984, he...
Senior Research Fellow German Socio-Economic Panel study
Dr. Franziska Schütze is a Research Associate in the climate policy department at DIW Berlin and coordinator of the project "sustainable finance research platform". Prior to DIW, she worked at the Global Climate Forum e.V. and obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Potsdam. Her research aims at understanding economic implications of climate and energy policies and the role of the financial...
Johannes Seebauer is a Ph.D. candidate at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center. Following undergraduate studies in Management in Regensburg, he obtained a M.Sc. in Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where he studied as a Fulbright scholar. He also holds a M.Res. in Economics from Sciences Po Paris. In his Master thesis, he used individual-level data from the Socio...
Ph.D. Student German Socio-Economic Panel study; Ph.D. Student Graduate Center
Hannah Seidl is currently a Ph.D. student at the Berlin School of Economics and the Graduate Center DIW and a Research Associate at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She started her PhD in 2019 after earning a B.A. in Social Science and a B.Sc. in Economics from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and a M.Sc. in Economics from Freie Universität Berlin. In her Bachelor’s and Master’s theses, Hannah...
Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics; Ph.D. Student Graduate Center
Fabian Seyrich obtained his bachelor degree in Economics from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Throughout his bachelor studies he held tutorials in Microeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics and Mathematics for Economists. Fabian continued with the master in Economics at the Freie Universität Berlin which included an exchange semester at the University of Melbourne. During his...
Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
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...
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...
Christina Stadler is a Ph.D. student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center. Her research interests relate primarily to applied industrial organisation and competition policy. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics, specializing in Industrial Organisation, from the University of Amsterdam and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Munich (LMU Munich). In her Master’s thesis she...
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