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.
Prof. Dr. Malte Rieth is research associate to the Department of Macroeconomics and Professor of Monetary Economics at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He was a strategist in the financial sector and received his PhD from the Technische Universität Dortmund. His research focuses on Business Cycles and Macroeconomic Policy. He has published in the American Economic Journal:...
Alexander is a postdoctoral research associate in the department of energy, transportation, environment. He works on the decarbonization of the energy sector, using numerical and empirical methods. His research focuses on power market flexibilities, sector coupling, such as heat, and societal challenges of the energy transition. He obtained his PhD in economics from the Technische Universität...
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...
Claudia Saalbach is a research associate in the Data Operation and Research Data Center at SOEP.She studied sociology in Konstanz and Potsdam and was a research associate at the Chair for Methods of Empirical Social Research at the University of Potsdam and at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam.In her research, she is interested in metadata in the survey life cycle as...
Adrián is a Ph.D. student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center and the University of Potsdam since October 2020. He obtained both his Master's and Bachelor's degree at the University of Mannheim. Adrián's research interests lie in the fields of climate and environmental economics, applied microeconometrics and policy evaluation. His current research focuses on the analysis of causes and effects of...
Maximilian Schaller is a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Economics. Following undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering at DHBW, he studied economics in the Master’s programs of RWTH Aachen and FU Berlin. Since October 2021, Maximilian worked as a research assistant at the Public Economics department of the DIW Berlin. During this time, he contributed to research on heterogeneous life...
Clara Schäper joined the DIW Berlin Graduate Center as a PhD student in 2020. She obtained her B.Sc. in Economics at the University of Mannheim and her M.Sc. in Applied Economics with a major in Public Policy and Development (PPD) at the Paris School of Economics (PSE). In her master’s thesis she studied the interdependence between discrimination in hiring and segregation on the firm- and...
Ph.D. Student Gender Economics; Ph.D. Student Public Economics
Rebecca Scheffauer is a postdoc at the DIW in Berlin where she works to improve the quality of survey research. Prior to that she obtained her PhD in Political Science at the University of Salamanca where she was a member of the Democracy Research Unit (DRU). Her research interests cover different forms of political participation as well as the effects of social, online, and traditional media.
Jan-Christopher Scherer is a Research Associate in Forecasting and Economic Policy in the Department of Macroeconomics, where he is responsible for the national accounts. After studying economics at the University of Mannheim (bachelor's degree) and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (master's degree), he earned his doctorate in the Doctoral Program in Economics at the Halle Institute for...
Researcher Macroeconomics; Researcher Forecasting and Economic Policy
Since May 2023, Teresa Schildmann supports the Department of Macroeconomics as Research Associate and is in particular responsible for the coverage of public finance in the forecasting team. Previously, she was in charge of labor market forecasting. After obtaining her bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Bonn, she pursued her doctoral studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt....
Researcher Macroeconomics; Researcher Forecasting and Economic Policy
Wolf-Peter Schill is leading the research area “Transformation of the Energy Economy” in the Department Energy, Transportation, Environment at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). After studying environmental engineering at TU Berlin and Macquarie University Sydney, he obtained a doctoral degree in energy economics at TU Berlin. His research focuses on renewable energy, energy...
Head of Division Energy, Transportation, Environment
Renke Schmacker is a Research Associate at the DIW Berlin and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. Before joining DIW, he spent three years as an SNF Senior Researcher at the University of Lausanne. He received his PhD from the Berlin School of Economics in 2020 and previously studied at Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Copenhagen, and Leuphana University Lüneburg. His research...
Laura joined the Energy, Transport, Environment department as a postdoctoral research associate in July 2023. She conducts research at the intersection of environmental and social policy, with a particular interest in the effects of air pollution on citizen's lives, including their health and human capital. Previously, Laura completed her PhD at FU Berlin and DIW's Graduate Center and worked in...
Carsten Schröder heads the Applied Panel Data Analyses division of the Socio-Economic Panel and is a Professor of Economics with a focus on Empirical Economics at Freie Universität Berlin. His main areas of interest lie in public finance and social policy. He primarily investigates economic inequalities and the effects of government interventions in the economy. He has published articles in the...
Head of Division German Socio-Economic Panel study
Ben studied at the Free University of Berlin, where he also finished his PhD om 2025 while also being a member of the DIW GC. He subsequently joined the macroeconomics department of DIW as a postdoctoral researcher. During his studies Ben has worked at the European Central Bank, the European Parliament and the German Minimum Wage Commission. His research interests lie in the field of monetary and...
Researcher Macroeconomics; Researcher Forecasting and Economic Policy
Johannes Schütt works in the SOEP's “Survey Methodology and Management” department. Among other things, he is jointly responsible for the statistical analysis of survey content, particularly paradata from current and previous survey waves, as well as for questionnaire development. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Potsdam and a Master's degree in Public Economics...
Dr. Franziska Schütze is Senior Researcher and deputy head of the climate policy department at DIW Berlin. Since 2020 she is coordinator of the project "sustainable finance research platform". Her research aims at understanding economic implications of climate and energy policies and the role of the financial sector. This includes the assessment of climate-related risks and opportunities and the...
Dr. Johannes Seebauer is a postdoctoral researcher in labor economics at the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and lecturer in econometrics at the Berlin School of Economics and the DIW Graduate Center, where he also completed his PhD. He also holds a M.Res. in Economics from Sciences Po Paris and a M.Sc. in Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where he studied as a...
Researcher German Socio-Economic Panel study; Lecturer Graduate Center
