Anna Hasselqvist has been a postdoctoral 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,...
Ellen Heidinger has been a research associate at SOEP since March 2020 and is involved in the project "Aspects of the Interaction between Health and Integration of Refugees in Germany (LARGE)." She holds an MSc in Sociology and Empirical Social Research from the University of Cologne and an MSc in Population Studies from the University of Groningen. In 2024, she completed her PhD in Sociology at...
Research Associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
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...
Research Associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
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
Christian Hunkler is acting division head 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...
Acting Division Head Division Head Survey Methodology and Management 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...
Research Associate German Socio-Economic Panel study; Research Associate 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...
Heinrich Jakunin is working as a social media editor at DIW Berlin since January. He studied Slavic and Eastern European Studies in Leipzig, Wrocław and Berlin. He gained his first experience in science communication at the Center for East European and International Studies (ZOiS). After his studies, he completed a journalistic traineeship at the Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung, a local newspaper...
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.
