Ruben Staffa is a researcher in the Macroeconomics Department at DIW Berlin, where he is responsible for forecasting trade developments in trade as well as managing data infrastructure and preparation within the forecasting unit. 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....
Researcher Macroeconomics; Researcher Forecasting and Economic Policy
Laura Starck has been working as the Applications Officer at the DIW Graduate Center since 2024. She is responsible for the selection process for the PhD program and for organising masterclasses and scientific skills courses.
Employee Graduate Center; Applications Officer Graduate Center
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.
Researcher / Survey Specialist German Socio-Economic Panel study
Caroline Stiel is a research associate at DIW Berlin. 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 liberalisation, the...
Andreea is a doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center since 2024 and works as a research associate in the Department of Crime, Labour, and Inequality since 2025. She holds a B.Sc. in Economics and a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Heidelberg, as well as an M.Sc. in Behavioural Science from LSE. Her research interests are in applied microeconomics, focusing on the intersection of...
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 electricity market reforms to incentivize demand-side flexibility. In particular, he has investigated futures markets, capacity mechanisms and local price signals. Leon holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and economics from the Goethe...
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...
Researcher / Survey Specialist 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-Hofmann 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,...
Anne Tilkorn started work as an online editor at DIW Berlin in November 2019. Her background is in science communication. Previously, she was responsible for websites and social media at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel. As a freelance journalist, she worked for Bayerischer Rundfunk and the Süddeutsche Zeitung. She studied philosophy, art history, and...
Bastian Tittor has been Social Media Editor at DIW Berlin since March 2024. In this role he manages the institute's presence on the platforms X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Bluesky, Facebook and YouTube. Previously, he built up the public appearance of the Sustainable Finance Research Platform and was responsible for the Platform's activities in the areas of press, online and events. At the same time,...
Employee Communications; Social Media-Editor Communications
Kristin is a doctoral student of the 2021 cohort at the DIW Graduate Center and since October 2022 a doctoral student at the department of Macroeconomics, where she is working on the economic forecast of the DIW and the joint economic forecast. She obtained both, the bachelor’s degree in Political Economics and the master’s degree in Economics at the University of Heidelberg. During her studies,...
Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics; Ph.D. Student Forecasting and Economic Policy
Sandra Tubik joined DIW Berlin as a press officer in January 2020. Previously, she worked as a communications manager for the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration. She studied political science and English studies in Greifswald and international relations in Budapest.
