Niklas is a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and at DIW Berlin. He holds an M.Sc. in Public Economics and an M.A. in Political Science from Freie Universität Berlin and completed exchange semesters at American University in Washington, D.C., and at Sciences Po Paris. His research interests are in labor economics, public economics, and political economy.
Sascha dos Santos is a research associate in the "Life Course and Inequality" research group and the SOEP Research Infrastructure unit at DIW Berlin. His research focuses on life course dynamics related to wealth and the labour market. Methodologically, he employs modern causal inference and longitudinal data analysis techniques. Prior to joining DIW, he worked at the WZB Berlin Social Science...
Researcher German Socio-Economic Panel study; Researcher Life Course and Inequality
Jascha Dräger is research associate at the Research Data Centre of the SOEP. He studied sociology in Kassel and Mannheim and received his PhD in Sociology from University of Mannheim in 2022. His main research interests are social stratification and inequalities in education.
Tomaso Duso is Head of the Firms and Markets Department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), a professor of empirical industrial economics at the Technische Universität (TU) Berlin, and the spokesperson of the Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP). He is the chairman of the Monopolies Commission and a member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy (EAGCP)...
I am interested in understanding how our environments shape personality, including the Big Five, well-being, and health. In my research, I use longitudinal data to examine how personality changes over time, and I am particularly interested in whether these changes depend on the social and physical contexts in which people live. I take a broad view of environment: I am interested in how the values,...
Alina Ermolaeva is a PhD student at the Berlin School of Economics and has been working in the Macroeconomics Department at DIW Berlin since 2023. She holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Amsterdam, where she specialized in Monetary Policy and Banking. During her master’s studies, she was awarded the Amsterdam...
Irene Faas has been working as a research manager at DIW Berlin since October 2014. Before joining DIW Berlin, she worked as a project officer at the Global Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and as a research assistant at the University of Lucerne in the project network of the Swiss University Rectors Conference.
Irene holds a master's degree in...
Sophia Fauser is a research associate in the WEALTHRAJECT research project and the “Life Course and Inequality” research group at DIW Berlin. Her research focuses on labor market outcomes and social inequality, applying methods of longitudinal data analysis. Before joining DIW, she worked in the Department of Microsociology at Humboldt University in Berlin. She completed her doctorate in Sociology...
Researcher German Socio-Economic Panel study; Researcher Life Course and Inequality
Lars is a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and DIW Berlin. He completed his MSc at the Freie University of Berlin. During his studies he worked as a student assistant at the department for public economics and the department for energy, transport and the environment at DIW Berlin. His research interests fall into the area of applied microeconomics where he works on topics of social...
Kerstin joined DIW Berlin in October 2010. Prior to working for DIW Berlin, she worked at the Deutsche Post DHL Group in Bonn, at the Amerika Haus in Cologne and at the American Academy in Berlin.
Kerstin received her Magister in North American Studies and English Philology from Freie Universität Berlin. During her studies, she spent one year as an exchange student in the USA.
Marcel Fratzscher is a researcher, author, and columnist on economic and socio-political topics, President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), and Professor of Macroeconomics at Humboldt University Berlin. Among other things, he is a member of the Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and the Association of the Euro50 Group
His work focuses on...
Adelina Garamow is a doctoral candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and the DIW Graduate Center. Since 2023, she has been working as a research associate in the Macroeconomics Department at DIW Berlin. She obtained her B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Mannheim and her M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Bonn. Before starting her doctoral studies, Adelina worked at the Center...
Annica Gehlen is a Ph.D. candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and a research associate at the Department of Public Economics. She is interested in labor economics and structural econometrics. Annica holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from the Humboldt University of Berlin and a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Bonn. During her studies, she worked as a research...
