Students

Find out more about our diverse student body and our ever-growing alumni network. Faculty members, consisting of top researchers from Berlin and Germany.

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Robin Sogalla

Robin has been a doctoral student in the DIW Graduate Center since October 2020. He obtained a Master’s Degree in Economic and Social Sciences from Bocconi University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Mannheim. Moreover, he studied one semester at Chinese University of Hong Kong and spent the second year of his Master as a Visiting Student at the PhD Program in Economics...

Izabela Wnuk-Soares

I am a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and DIW Berlin. I also completed research stays at Boston University and UC3M.  I earned my MSc at the London School of Economics. My research interests include labor economics and applied microeconomics. I am particularly interested in how immigration affects the labor market and health outcomes of native and immigrant workers, especially...

Cohort 2024

  • Arianna Antezza
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    Arianna Antezza

    Ph.D. Student Graduate Center
  • Lukas Barner
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    Lukas Barner

    Ph.D. Student Graduate Center
  • Dominik Patrick Bursy
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    Dominik Patrick Bursy

    Ph.D. Student Graduate Center
  • Alexander Grawe
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    Alexander Grawe

    Alex joined the DIW Graduate Center as a PhD student in 2024. He holds an MPhil from Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam and a B.Sc. from the Free University of Berlin. His research interests lie in applied microeconomics, especially in the topics labor, education, and inequality.

    Ph.D. Student Graduate Center
  • Jonas Jungehülsing
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    Jonas Jungehülsing

    Ph.D. Student Graduate Center
  • Andreea-Maria Stoica
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    Andreea-Maria Stoica

    Ph.D. Student Graduate Center
  • Fernanda Ballesteros
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    Fernanda Ballesteros

    Fernanda is a Ph.D. Student and Research Associate at the Climate Policy Department, where she is working on the topic of transition risks in energy-intensive industries related to the economy's shift towards climate neutrality. She studied Public Policy at the Hertie School and Università Bocconi for her Master's degree and completed her Bachelor's degree at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms...

    Ph.D. Student Climate Policy
  • Nina Maria Brehl
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    Nina Maria Brehl

    Nina joined the Graduate Center in October 2023 and plans to pursue her doctorate in the DIW's Macroeconomics Department. She has a background in development economics and prior experience in start-up and scale-up project management. She completed her master’s degree in the Netherlands with a thesis on the consistency of European sanction regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her research interests...

    Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics
  • Lars Felder
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    Lars Felder

    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 combines topics of social...

    Ph.D. Student Public Economics
  • Themistoklis Kampouris
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    Themistoklis Kampouris

    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...

    Ph.D. Student Firms and Markets
  • Carl Kreuzberg
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    Carl Kreuzberg

    Carl has joined the DIW as a doctoral student in October 2023. Prior to joining DIW, he worked as an analyst at the Monopolies Commission, conducting empirical research related to the energy crisis in Europe. He obtained both a master’s and a bachelor’s degree in economics from University of Mannheim, specializing in applied econometrics, industrial organization, and energy economics. After...

    Ph.D. Student Firms and Markets
  • Jo-Ya  Kung
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    Jo-Ya Kung

    Jo-Ya joined the DIW Graduate Center this year as part of the 2023 cohort. She holds a master’s degree in Economics from the University of Mainz with a specialization in International Economics. Her master’s thesis examined the policy implications and potential risks of introducing central bank digital currencies. In 2023, she interned at the ifo Center for International Economics in Munich, where...

    Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics; Ph.D. Student International Macroeconomics
  • Lotte Maaßen
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    Lotte Maaßen

    Lotte has been a doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center since October 2023. Her research focuses on income and wealth inequality, with a particular focus on real estate ownership and its role in wealth distribution and accumulation. Lotte has a Master's degree in Economics from the Free University of Berlin and studied economics at the Humboldt University of Berlin. From 2019 to 2023 she...

    Ph.D. Student German Socio-Economic Panel study
  • Paula Niemöller
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    Paula Niemöller

    Paula has been a PhD student at the DIW Graduate Center since October 2022 and has been working in the Climate Policy Department since October 2023. She graduated with a BSc in Business Administration from the Hamburg School of Business Administration (HSBA) and obtained her MSc in Economics at the Friedrich-Alexander-University in Nuremberg (FAU). During and after her bachelor studies, she gained...

    Research Associate Climate Policy
  • Thomas Rieger
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    Thomas Rieger

    Thomas has been a doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center since October 2022. Since October 2023, he is working in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) division. His research focus lies on the consequences of and remedies to German spatial economic inequality. Before joining SOEP, Thomas worked at the OECD, at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, and -- thus closing the circle -- at...

    Ph.D. Student German Socio-Economic Panel study
  • Leon Stolle
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    Leon Stolle

    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 sustainable finance and energy economics. Leon holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and economics from the Goethe University Frankfurt and a master's degree in economics from the University of Cologne. For his master's thesis, Leon compared...

    Research Associate Climate Policy
  • Francesca Verga
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    Francesca Verga

    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...

    Ph.D. Student German Socio-Economic Panel study
  • Sophie M. Behr
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    Sophie M. Behr

    Sophie M. Behr joined the DIW Berlin Graduate Center as a PhD candidate in October 2021. Her research interests lie in climate economics and policy, and particularly include circular economy and carbon pricing. Sophie holds a BSc in Economics from the Leuphana University of Lüneburg and a MSc in Economics from the University of Hamburg and spent parts of her studies at the University of Bologna,...

    Research Associate Climate Policy; Ph.D. Student Graduate Center
  • Adelina Garamow
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    Adelina Garamow

    Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics
  • Annica Gehlen
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    Annica Gehlen

    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...

    Ph.D. Student Public Economics
  • Felix Schmidt
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    Felix Schmidt

    Felix is a PhD student at the DIW’s Graduate Center. Prior to joining the program, he worked with an economic consultancy in London focusing on energy market arbitration and litigation projects. His research interests lie in the fields of energy economics and operations research for power systems. Felix holds a Master of Science in Advanced Economics and Finance from Copenhagen Business...

    Ph.D. Student Graduate Center; Member of Department Energy, Transportation, Environment
  • Yogam Tchokni
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    Yogam Tchokni

    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...

    Ph.D. Student German Socio-Economic Panel study
  • Kristin Trautmann
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    Kristin Trautmann

    Kristin is a PhD candidate of the 2021 cohort at the DIW Graduate Center. 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, she worked as a teaching assistant at the chair of Empirical economics as well as a student assistant at the ZEW (Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research). Prior...

    Ph.D. Student Graduate Center; Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
  • Temulun Borjigen
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    Temulun Borjigen

    Temulun is a Ph.D. candidate at Berlin School of Economics and DIW GC. Her research interest is in the field of empirical industrial organization, with a focus on health economics. She obtained her Master's degree in Economics and Finance from the Center for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI). Temulun is also affiliated with the University of Copenhagen as a research assistant.

    Ph.D. Student Firms and Markets; Scholarship Recipient
  • Adeline Guéret
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    Adeline Guéret

    Adeline Guéret is a research associate and doctoral candidate at the DIW Graduate Center and the Technical University of Berlin. Her research focuses on the energy transition, in particular the effects of sector coupling between the electricity and transport sectors. Methodologically, she works with electricity system models and open source tools. Before joining the Graduate Center, she worked as...

    Research Associate & PhD student Energy, Transportation, Environment
  • Gökhan Ider
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    Gökhan Ider

    Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics; Scholarship Recipient
  • Till Köveker
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    Till Köveker

    Till is a PhD-candidate at DIW Graduate Center and in the Climate Policy department of DIW. He holds a Master in Economics (Economic Theory and Econometrics) from Toulouse School of Economics and a Bachelor in Sociology, Politics & Economics from Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen. Furthermore, he has experience from internships in different sectors (e.g. at KfW Development Bank, at the...

    Ph.D. Student Climate Policy
  • Frederik Kurcz
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    Frederik Kurcz

    Frederik Kurcz is a PhD student at the Berlin School of Economics and a research associate in the macroeconomics department. After first completing a B.Sc. in Economics and Business at the University of Hohenheim, Frederik studied Economics in the Master's program at the University of Tübingen with a semester abroad at Queen's University, Canada. During his studies, he worked at the Tübingen Chair...

    Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics; Ph.D. Student Forecasting and Economic Policy
  • Nils Handler
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    Nils Handler

    Nils Handler entered the PhD in economics as part of the first cohort of the Berlin School of Economics in 2019. He has a keen interest in investigating policies aimed at decarbonizing the economy and achieving the energy transition at least cost. More broadly he seeks to understand how our social contract needs to be recalibrated in the light of the emerging green growth paradigm. Nils has...

    Ph.D. Student Graduate Center
  • Viola Hilbert
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    Viola Hilbert

    Viola joined the Berlin School of Economics as a Ph.D. candidate in October 2019. She obtained a Master of Public Policy degree from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and a bachelor’s degree (B.A.) in Politics and Public Administration from the University of Konstanz. Prior to joining the DIW Berlin, Viola spent two years working as a strategy and management consultant for public sector...

    Ph.D. Student German Socio-Economic Panel study
  • Hannah Magdalena Seidl
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    Hannah Magdalena Seidl

    Hannah Seidl is currently a Ph.D. student at the Berlin School of Economics and the Graduate Center DIW and a Research Associate at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She started her PhD in 2019 after earning a B.A. in Social Science and a B.Sc. in Economics from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and a M.Sc. in Economics from Freie Universität Berlin. In her Bachelor’s and Master’s theses, Hannah...

    Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics; Ph.D. Student Graduate Center
  • Virginia Sondergeld
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    Virginia Sondergeld

    Virginia is a research associate in DIW's research group Gender Economics since October 2020. She joined the Berlin School of Economics as a PhD student in 2019. She holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and a BSc in Economics and Business Administration from Goethe University, Frankfurt. Before her doctoral studies, Virginia gained two years of professional experience...

    Research Associate Gender Economics; Ph.D. Student Public Economics
  • Martin Kittel
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    Martin Kittel

    Martin Kittel is a Ph.D. candidate at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center. Prior to DIW, Martin worked as a research associate at the Workgroup for Infrastructure Policy, Technical Institute Berlin and with Germanwatch, a development and environmental civil society organization, focusing on energy transition cooperation in Southeast Europe. He has completed internships at the German-Australian Chamber...

    Ph.D. Student Energy, Transportation, Environment
  • Laura Pagenhardt
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    Laura Pagenhardt

    Laura joined the DIW Graduate Center in 2018 and the Forecasting and Economic Policy Department in 2019. After completing a B.Sc. Psychology at the University of Heidelberg, Laura obtained her B.Sc. Economics from the Free University Berlin, where she also worked as a research and teaching assistant at the chair of econometrics. Based on her bachelor’s dissertation, she published an article on...

    Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics; Ph.D. Student Forecasting and Economic Policy
  • Christina Stadler
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    Christina Stadler

    Christina Stadler is a Ph.D. student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center. Her research interests relate primarily to applied industrial organisation and competition policy. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics, specializing in Industrial Organisation, from the University of Amsterdam and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Munich (LMU Munich). In her Master’s thesis she...

    Ph.D. Student Firms and Markets
  • Jana Wittich
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    Jana Wittich

    Jana Wittich is a Ph.D. student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center and a research associate in the Macroeconomics Department. She holds two Bachelor degrees in Governance and Public Policy and European Studies from the University of Passau, with a specialization in Economics, Global Governance and Political Science. During her studies, she spent two semesters at the University of Nantes, France....

    Ph.D. Student Graduate Center; Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
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