Sarah Godar is researcher at the Macroeconomics department at DIW and part of the research team of the EU Tax Observatory. She holds a Ph.D. from She holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University in Prague. Her research focuses on international tax avoidance, tax competition and offshore wealth.
Professional Position:
Since 2017 Research Director Industrial Policy at German Institute for Economic Research, DIW Berlin
Since 2007 Honorary professor for urban and regional economics at Technical University Berlin
2013-2023 Deputy Head of the Department Firms and Market at DIW Berlin
2004-2012 Deputy Head and Acting Head of the Department Innovation, Manufacturing and Services at DIW...
Markus M. Grabka is Senior Researcher at the SOEP. His research interests lie in the field of income and wealth inequality.
1997 Master of Arts at the TU Berlin in computer sciences and sociology1997-1999 research associate at the Berlin Center for Public Healthsince 1999 research associate at the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) at the DIW Berlin1999-2002 member of the graduate program...
Board of Directors SOEP & Acting Division Head German Socio-Economic Panel study
Daniel Graeber is currently a research associate at the SOEP. His primary interested is centered on the socioeconomic determinants of health, mental health in particular. Other topics of interest are intergenerational mobility, migration economics, the economics of the COVID-19 pandemic and research on Entrepreneurship.
Research Associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
Adeline Guéret is a PhD candidate at the DIW Graduate Center and TU Berlin. Her research focuses on topics related to the energy transition. More specifically, she uses modeling methods to better understand pathways that can lead to deeply decarbonize our economies. Prior to joining the Graduate Center in October 2020, she worked as a researcher at the French Economic Observatory (OFCE) to which...
Research Associate & PhD student Energy, Transportation, Environment
Head of department of Public Economics at DIW Berlin and Professor of Public Economics at Freie Universität Berlin. Ph.D in Economics with distinction (Supervisors: Prof. Viktor Steiner and Prof. Richard Blundell). Studies in Economics and Political Sciences at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Humboldt-University Berlin and University of Toronto (degree: Diplom Volkswirt). Visiting Fellow at...
Angelina Hammon is a research associate in the SOEP since October 2019 and wrote her PhD thesis in Statistics about non-ignorable missing-data and selection mechanisms. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and did her master studies in Survey Statistics at the University of Bamberg. After her studies she was working as research associate in the methods group of the Leibniz Institute for...
Research Associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
Nils Handler entered the PhD in economics as part of the first cohort of the Berlin School of Economics in 2019. He has a keen interest in investigating policies aimed at decarbonizing the economy and achieving the energy transition at least cost. More broadly he seeks to understand how our social contract needs to be recalibrated in the light of the emerging green growth paradigm.
Nils has...
Jonas Hannane is currently a PhD student at DIW Berlin and the Berlin School of Economics via TU Berlin. His research interests relate to digital economics (with a particular focus on online labor markets) and applied industrial organization. Before joining the BSE PhD program in 2019, he worked in the competition practice of an economic consulting company.
Tom Hartl has been working as a research assistant at SOEP since February 2024. He is part of the Open Data Format project and is involved in the development of a new data format.
Research Associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
Ellen Heidinger joined the SOEP team in March 2020 and is a research associate in the project “Longitudinal Aspects of the Interaction between Health and Integration of Refugees in Germany (LARGE)”. Since October 2020, Ellen Heidinger has been a member of the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where she is pursuing a PhD in sociology. In 2019...
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...
Franziska Holz is Deputy Head of the Department Energy, Transportation, and Environment and coordinates the research area Resource and Environmental Markets in the department. Her research deals with various aspects of the decarbonisation of international and European energ markets, with a focus on the markets for natural gas, coal, oil, and hydrogen. She also works on the Social-Ecological...
Deputy Head of Department Energy, Transportation, Environment
Dr Alexandra Hüttel is a postdoctoral researcher at DIW Berlin, Climate Policy Department. Her work focuses on industrial decarbonization, transition plans of real economy and financial market actors, and regulatory developments in sustainable finance in the EU. As coordinator of the Sustainable Finance Research Platform (WPSF), Alexandra is responsible for project management and oversight as well...