Hannes Ullrich is Deputy Head of the Department Firms and Markets at the DIW Berlin and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Copenhagen. He is also a CESifo Research Affiliate and Senior Fellow at the Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP). Hannes is an applied microeconomist with research interests in empirical industrial organization, health economics, and personnel...
Francesca joined the DIW Berlin Graduate Center as a PhD candidate in October 2022. She holds a BSc in Economics and Business from the University of Milan-Bicocca and a MSc in Economics from the Catholic University of Milan. Prior to joining the DIW, Francesca worked as a trainee at the Competence Centre on Microeconomic Evaluation of the Joint Research Centre in Ispra and at the International...
Moritz has been a PhD candidate at the DIW Graduate Center since October 2025. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Geosciences and a Master's degree in Economics from Goethe University Frankfurt. His research interests focus on environmental and resource economics, in particular the energy transition in the European Union.
At the SOEP Research Data Center, Knut Wenzig takes care of tools for capturing, translating and outputting metadata and supports data management with active metadata. He is also responsible for informations on occupations and industry in the datasets and trains specialists in market and social research. He has been a member of the programme committee of the European DDI Users Conference since 201...
Researcher / Survey Specialist German Socio-Economic Panel study
On July 1, 2025, Stefanie Wiese joined the third-party funding management (3M) and will take over projects in the research departments Macroeconomics (MAK) and Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) where she supports in the financial monitoring and administrative management of the projects. She previously worked in a think tank for sustainability as a finance officer and completed her vocational training at...
Jana Wittich is a Doctoral student at the Berlin School of Economics and the DIW Graduate Center. Since 2022, she has been working in the Macroeconomics Department, where she contributes to the institute’s economic forecasts. She holds two bachelor’s degrees in Governance and Public Policy and European Studies from the University of Passau, with a specialization in Economics, Global Governance and...
Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics; Ph.D. Student Forecasting and Economic Policy
Julia Witton joined SOEP in July 2024 as a research assistant in the project CALVI (Video-Interviewing as Part of a Targeted Multimode Design in Household Panel Surveys). She received her M.Sc. in Work, Organizational, and Health Psychology at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2024 and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the Berlin School of Social Sciences (BGSS) of the Humboldt-Universität zu...
Izabela Wnuk-Soares is a Postdoctoral Researcher at DIW Berlin, jointly appointed with the ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin. She earned her PhD in Economics from Freie Universität Berlin and her MSc from the London School of Economics. She has also completed research stays at Boston University and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Her research lies in labor and applied microeconomics. She studies how...
Researcher Public Economics; Researcher Crime, Labour and Inequality
After completing his studies in political and social sciences in Heidelberg, Granada and Amsterdam, Mario took up a position as a research assistant and PhD student at DIW. His research involves the quantitative analysis of media data using computational social science methods (NLP, machine learning), and the linking of different types of data. His research interests include the transformation of...
Katharina Wrohlich is Professor of Public Finance, Gender and Family Economics at the University of Potsdam and Head of the Gender Economics Research Group at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). Her research focuses on the evaluation of labor market, family and tax policy on employment and wages of women. Moreover, she is working on the issue of gender gaps in the labor market...
Head Gender Economics; Head Research Group Public Economics
Juliane Zenker focuses on evidence-based policy analysis, drawing on public, labour and gender-economics perspectives. Her work evaluates government interventions in Germany—ranging from employment regulation and family benefits to migration policy—and assesses their effects on labour-market participation, gender equality and distributional outcomes. Previously, she served as a Senior Researcher...
Researcher / Survey Specialist German Socio-Economic Panel study
