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
Julia Witton joined SOEP in July 2024 as a research assistant in the project CALVI (Video-Interviewing as Part of a Targeted Multimode Design in Household Panel Surveys). She received her M.Sc. in Work, Organizational, and Health Psychology at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2024 and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the Berlin School of Social Sciences (BGSS) of the Humboldt-Universität zu...
Izabela Wnuk-Soares is a Postdoctoral Researcher at DIW Berlin, jointly appointed with the ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin. She earned her PhD in Economics from Freie Universität Berlin and her MSc from the London School of Economics. She has also completed research stays at Boston University and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Her research lies in labor and applied microeconomics. She studies how...
Researcher Public Economics; Researcher Crime, Labour and Inequality
After completing his studies in political and social sciences in Heidelberg, Granada and Amsterdam, Mario took up a position as a research assistant and PhD student at DIW. His research involves the quantitative analysis of media data using computational social science methods (NLP, machine learning), and the linking of different types of data. His research interests include the transformation of...
Katharina Wrohlich is Professor of Public Finance, Gender and Family Economics at the University of Potsdam and Head of the Gender Economics Research Group at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). Her research focuses on the evaluation of labor market, family and tax policy on employment and wages of women. Moreover, she is working on the issue of gender gaps in the labor market...
Head Gender Economics; Head Research Group Public Economics
Juliane Zenker focuses on evidence-based policy analysis, drawing on public, labour and gender-economics perspectives. Her work evaluates government interventions in Germany—ranging from employment regulation and family benefits to migration policy—and assesses their effects on labour-market participation, gender equality and distributional outcomes. Previously, she served as a Senior Researcher...
Researcher / Survey Specialist German Socio-Economic Panel study
Prof. Dr. habil. Sabine Zinn is the head of the Socio-Economic Panel. She is a is a social scientist with expertise in Computational Social Science, focusing on migration, education, and health research. Prior to joining the SOEP (Socio-Economic Panel), she studied economic mathematics at the University of Jena and pursued her doctorate in statistical demography at the Max Planck Institute for...
SOEP Director German Socio-Economic Panel study; Member of the Executive Board Executive Board
