Anna Hasselqvist is a Researcher at DIW Berlin since September 2025. She received her PhD in Economics from LMU Munich and the ifo Institute. Her research interests are in labor economics, with a focus on education, family, and migration. Her current work examines parental investments and gender differences, the integration of children and families with a migration background, as well as issues...
Elias Heppner is a research assistant in the economic forecasting section of the Macroeconomics Department. He works on the further development of research data management as well as forecasting and dashboarding tools for economic forecasting. Elias studied political science at the University of Mannheim and social and economic data science at the University of Konstanz.
Researcher Macroeconomics; Researcher Forecasting and Economic Policy
Char Hilgers is a PhD student in Sociology at the Humboldt University's Berlin Graduate School of Social Science, funded by the Socio-Economic Panel at DIW Berlin. Their research focuses on statistical techniques for nonresponse in survey settings, in particular when missingness means something. They are interested in refusal, misdirection, and obfuscation in survey settings, and ethical dilemmas...
Franziska Holz is Deputy Head of the Department Energy, Transportation, and Environment and coordinates the research area Resource and Environmental Markets in the department. Her research deals with various aspects of the decarbonisation of international and European energ markets, with a focus on the markets for natural gas, coal, oil, and hydrogen. She also works on the Social-Ecological...
Deputy Head of Department Energy, Transportation, Environment; Head of Division Energy, Transportation, Environment
Christian Hunkler is the division head of Survey Methodology and Management of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin. He is a social scientist and his research focuses particularly on migration, inequality, survey research methods, and the use of process-generated “big data" in social science research. Before joining SOEP in 2025, he worked as a research associate at Humboldt University...
Head of Division German Socio-Economic Panel study
Bettina Hünteler is a research associate in the DECIPHE research project at DIW Berlin. Her research focuses on social inequality, such as wealth or health in the context of kinship and migration, with a particular emphasis on the life course approach. Methodologically, she uses advanced quantitative methods such as sequence and cluster analysis, and multi-level models. Before joining DIW, she...
Researcher German Socio-Economic Panel study; Researcher Life Course and Inequality
Pia Hüttl is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Macroeconomics Department at DIW Berlin. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Tor Vergata in Rome and a Master’s in European Political Economy from the London School of Economics. She has worked at the European Commission and the European Central Bank. For three years, she was a Research Affiliate at Bruegel, a Brussels...
Gökhan Ider is a Doctoral student at the Berlin School of Economics and the DIW Graduate Center, and has been working in the Macroeconomics Department at DIW Berlin since 2021. He completed both a Bachelor and Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering at University College London before pursuing an MSc in Economics at the University of Konstanz. During his master's studies at Konstanz, he was...
Petra Jasper joined DIW Berlin in January 2020. She is the spokesperson for the institute and heads the Press Office. Additionally, she is responsible for the DIW Wochenbericht, DIW Weekly Report, DIW aktuell, as well as guest commentaries, statements, and interviews. Previously, she worked for Reuters as an editor for its political and economics department.
Deputy Head of Department Communications; Spokesperson Communications
Jonas joined the DIW Graduate Center in 2024 and has been a PhD candidate in the climate policy department since October 2025. He holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration and Economics and an M.Sc. in Economics from Leipzig University as well as a master's degree in Development Economics from the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. During his studies, he gained working experience at the...
Themistoklis is a PhD Candidate in the Firms and Markets Department at the Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Berlin (DIW Berlin). He holds an MSc in Economics, a MSc in Epidemiology and Research Methodology, as well as a BSc in Mathematics. He worked as a Mathematics teacher in Greece and as a Research Associate (Pre-doc) at DIW before the start of his PhD. His research is primarily...
