Leo is a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and DIW Berlin. He received his MSc in Economics from University College London and his undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford. His research interests lie in empirical industrial organisation and competition policy.
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.
Yashna is a doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center since 2025. She holds an MSc degree in Economics from the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Delhi. Her research interests lie in climate policy and environmental economics.
Sonja is a doctoral student at the DIW Berlin since 2025. She holds a master's degree in economics from the University of Helsinki and a bachelor's degree in economics and business administration from Aalto University in Finland. Her research interests fall in the areas of inequality, public economics, and political economy.
Felix Mergenhagen has been a doctoral researcher at the DIW Graduate Center since 2025. He holds a Master’s degree from Duke University and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Hamburg. His research explores how access to energy and transportation infrastructure shapes economic development and welfare, combining micro-empirical methods with spatial and infrastructure modeling.
Alessia is a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and DIW Berlin. She completed her MSc in Economic and Social Sciences at Bocconi University. During her studies, she worked as a research assistant in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University and spent four months as a trainee at the European Commission in Brussels. Before starting her PhD, she worked as a...
Marie Rulliere is a PhD student at the DIW Graduate Center. Her research interests lie in labor economics and macroeconomics. After completing her Master’s degree, Marie worked for four years at the French Treasury (Ministry of Economy and Finance) and then spent two years in the Macroeconomics Department at DIW Berlin. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Paris-Dauphine University...
Anastasiia Sedova is a doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center since 2025. Her research interests lie in energy and environmental economics. Anastasiia earned her Bachelor's degree from Higher School of Economics, Moscow, and her Master's degree from the University of Heidelberg with a DAAD scholarship. Prior to joining DIW, Anastasiia gained experience as a research assistant at Leibniz...
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.
Arianna Antezza has been a doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center and the Berlin School of Economics since October 2024. She is part of the Gender Economics research group in the Public Economics Department. Before starting her PhD, she worked as a Financial Stability Analyst at the European Central Bank. She earned her Master’s in Economics from the Barcelona School of Economics. Prior to...
Ph.D. Student Public Economics; Ph.D. Student Gender Economics
Lukas is a doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center since 2024. He graduated in Industrial Engineering (B.Sc./M.Sc.) at the Technical University of Berlin. His research interests are in the field of energy economics, with a focus on quantitative modeling of infrastructure systems.
Dominik Bursy is a doctoral researcher at the Berlin School of Economics and a research associate in the Public Economics Department since 2024. He obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Economics from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, complemented by study abroad periods at the University of Warwick (UK) and ENSAE Paris.
During his studies, he worked in the Department...
Alex is a PhD candidate at the DIW Graduate Center, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), and the Berlin School of Economics. He studied Economics at Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam (MPhil) and at the Free University of Berlin (B.Sc.). His research interests lie in applied microeconomics, especially in the topics labor, education, and inequality.
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...
Andreea is a doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center since 2024 and works as a research associate in the Department of Crime, Labour, and Inequality since 2025. She holds a B.Sc. in Economics and a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Heidelberg, as well as an M.Sc. in Behavioural Science from LSE. Her research interests are in applied microeconomics, focusing on the intersection of...
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...
Nina is a second-year doctoral researcher in the PhD program at DIW Berlin, working within the Macroeconomics Department. As a member of the institute's forecasting team, she focuses on forecasting the German inflation rate and the broader European economy. Her responsibilities include the development and refinement of forecasting models, as well as the interpretation of macroeconomic trends for...
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...
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...
Carl is a PhD candidate in the Firms and Markets Department, specializing in empirical industrial organization. His current research combines applied econometrics, natural language processing, and large language models to detect anti-competitive behavior in firms’ communication patterns, analyze enforcement and market data, and improve empirical cartel screening methodologies used by competition...
Jo-Ya joined the DIW Graduate Center and the macroeconomics department in 2023. 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....
Lotte Maaßen is a PhD student at the DIW Graduate Center and the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Her research interests are in the area of wealth and income inequality. Current research projects focus on the role of inheritances and parental background for the distribution of wealth in Germany and on gender gaps in capital incomes. Lotte has a master's degree in economics from Freie Universität...
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 holds a BSc in Business Administration from Hamburg School of Business Administration (HSBA) and a MSc in Economics from Friedrich-Alexander-University in Nuremberg (FAU). During and after her bachelor studies, she gained first-hand experience in...
Thomas joined DIW Graduate Center as a PhD candidate in 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 SOEP.
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 electricity market reforms to incentivize demand-side flexibility. In particular, he has investigated futures markets, capacity mechanisms and local price signals. Leon holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and economics from the Goethe...
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...
Sophie M. Behr joined the DIW Berlin Graduate Center as a PhD candidate in October 2021. Her research interests lie in environmental and energy economics and climate policy, with a particular focus on building sector darbonization and its distributional implications, circular economy and carbon pricing. Sophie holds a BSc in Economics from the Leuphana University of Lüneburg and a MSc in Economics...
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...
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...
Kristin is a doctoral student of the 2021 cohort at the DIW Graduate Center and since October 2022 a doctoral student at the department of Macroeconomics, where she is working on the economic forecast of the DIW and the joint economic forecast. 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,...
Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics; Ph.D. Student Forecasting and Economic Policy
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.
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...
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 Öko...
Frederik Kurcz is a doctoral student at the Macroeconomics Department and at the Berlin School of Economics (Freie Universität Berlin). His research studies monetary and fiscal policy transmission with household heterogeneity. His job market paper, “Quantifying the Fiscal Channel of Monetary Policy,” combines new evidence on fiscal responses to monetary shocks with a Heterogeneous Agent New...
Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics; Ph.D. Student Forecasting and Economic Policy
Lorenz Meister is a PhD student at the DIW Graduate Center and a research associate at the Socio-Economic Panel. His research focuses on political economy, with an emphasis on threats to democracy. He had research stays at the World Inequality Lab at Paris School of Economics (2025), at Harvard’s Opportunity Insights Lab (2024), and at the Department of Political Economy at King's College. He...
Ph.D. Student German Socio-Economic Panel study
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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...
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...
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
