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
Julian Axenfeld is Head of the German Social Cohesion Panel (SCP) at SOEP. His research focuses on imputation, nonresponse, and machine-learning methods for survey research. He studied sociology at the University of Mannheim, where he also obtained his doctorate. Prior to his work at DIW Berlin, he worked as a Research Associate at the Socium institute at the University of Bremen and at the...
Head of Social Cohesion Panel German Socio-Economic Panel study
Stefan Bach is research associate at the Public Finance Department at DIW Berlin. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cologne. His research work is focused on empirical public finance, especially taxation, social security, climate policy, distribution of income and wealth, and microsimulation modeling.
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.
Ph.D. Student Energy, Transportation, Environment; Ph.D. Student Graduate Center
Mattis Beckmannshagen joined the Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) in October 2022. Before, he earned his Ph.D. at Freie Universität Berlin. His research research interests primarily lie in the field of labor economics with a focus on inequality and health. He particularly cares about labor supply preferences, i.e. why people work as much as they do, and what consequences this might have. Further, I am...
Research Associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
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...
Research Associate Climate Policy; Ph.D. Student Graduate Center
Dr. Kerstin Bernoth is Co-Dean of the Graduate Center at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bonn and worked from 2004 to 2009 as a researcher in the economic policy and research department of De Nederlandsche Bank, the Central Bank of the Netherlands. Her research interests include monetary policy, international economics, financial...
Co-Dean Graduate Center; Research Associate Macroeconomics
Louise Biddle joined the Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) in 2023 as a post-doctoral researcher on the project SUARE (Longitudinal study on refugees from Ukraine in Germany), focusing on aspects of discrimination and health. She holds an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a PhD in Public Health from Bielefeld University. Her research focuses on the social...
Research Associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
Anna Bindler is Professor of Applied Microeconomics at the University of Potsdam and Head of the Crime, Labour and Inequality Department at DIW Berlin. Her research is in applied microeconomics, with a particular focus on crime, labor and inequality. Her research analyzes the economic and social causes and consequences of illegal behavior, the interaction between labor markets, inequality and...
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
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...
Hermann Buslei studied economics at the universities of Munich, Cologne and Bonn. After graduating (Diplom-Volkswirt), he worked as a research associate at empirica, Bonn, a private research and consulting institute (Jan. 1991-Aug. 1994). He interrupted this work for a study with Prof. Konrad Stahl, University of Mannheim, on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Building and Urban Development. From...
Dr. Sonali Chowdhry is Research Associate in the Department Firms and Markets. She is an economist specialising in international trade and firm heterogeneity. Her research examines the reallocation effects of trade policy shocks using detailed firm-level customs databases. Alongside academic research, Sonali has contributed to numerous policy studies on mega-regional trade agreements and served as...
Astrid Cullmann is senior researcher in the Department Energy, Transportation, and Environment. Her research deals with productivity and regulation of public sector firms. She focuses on municipal state-owned firms in the energy and water sector. Astrid is also Senior Lecturer at the Chair of Econometrics and Business Statistics at TU Berlin. She studied Economics at Free University Berlin and...
Research Associate Energy, Transportation, Environment
Philippa Cumming joined SOEP in 2022 as part of the IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP project ‘Refugees from Ukraine in Germany’. Since 2023, she has been a research assistant in the SUARE project (longitudinal study on refugees from Ukraine in Germany). Here she is involved in data preparation and the integration of annual data into longitudinal datasets. Her research focuses on discrimination, health and...
Research Associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
Geraldine Dany-Knedlik heads the team of forecasting and economic policy at the DIW Berlin. Geraldine Dany-Knedlik's expertise lies in the areas of international macroeconomics and monetary policy. Special thematic focuses are inflation and monetary policy, spillovers of monetary policy, and the interactions between the business cycles and cycles of income and wealth inequality. Until 2021, she...
Deputy Head of Department Macroeconomics; Head Forecasting and Economic Policy
Thibault has been a Research Associate in the Climate Policy Department since October 2025. His research focuses on electricity markets and industry decarbonisation. He enjoys analysing energy policies through the lens of decision and game theories. In 2025, he completed a doctorate in energy economics at Université Paris Dauphine–PSL, in partnership with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic...
Dr. Sonja Dobkowitz is a researcher at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) in Berlin. She explores how social and economic factors, such as income inequality, demand, or inno-vation, influence the effectiveness of fiscal and climate policies. Her academic career took her to various institutions across Europe and the US. She obtained her degrees in Economics from the University...
