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
Hannes Ullrich is Deputy Head of the Department Firms and Markets at the DIW Berlin and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Copenhagen. He is also a CESifo Research Affiliate, and Fellow at the Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP). Hannes is an applied microeconomist with research interests in empirical industrial organization, health economics, and personnel economics. His...
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...
Hannah Walther is a Research Associate of the Crime, Labour and Inequality Department. She studied economics at the University of Passau and Freie Universität Berlin, with a stay abroad at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. During her Master's degree, Hannah worked as a student assistant at the Chair of Public Economics.
Felix Weinhardt is research associate at the Public Economics department at the DIW Berlin and Professor of Public Economics at the European University Viadrina. Felix obtained his PhD at the London School of Economics. He is interested in understanding causes and consequences of social and spatial inequality. Consequently, his research interests lie at the intersections of the economics of...
At the SOEP Research Data Center, Knut Wenzig takes care of tools for capturing, translating and outputting metadata and supports data management with active metadata. He is also responsible for informations on occupations and industry in the datasets and trains specialists in market and social research. He has been a member of the programme committee of the European DDI Users Conference since 201...
Member of Research Infrastructure German Socio-Economic Panel study
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
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...
Research Associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
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...
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...
Ph.D. Student in the division Data Operation and Research Data Center German Socio-Economic Panel study
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; Research Associate Public Economics
My main research interest is applying structural models to study productivity improvement and technological progress. One project uses micro-econometric methods to study the impact of removing input distortions on factor income shares. In another project, I zoom in on the electric-vehicle industry in China to study the optimal product subsidy scheme for product upgrading.
Prof. Dr. habil. Sabine Zinn is acting 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...
Acting Director SOEP German Socio-Economic Panel study
