1999: general qualification for university entrance, Dresden
1999-2005: diploma in sociology, University of Leipzig
2005-2009: scientific assistant at the chair for sociology and methodology, University of Leipzig
2009-: research associate at the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) at the DIW Berlin
Research Associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
Heike Link is Head of the Transportation Research Team. She joined DIW in 1992 after studies in Mathematical Economics and a PhD thesis on dynamic input-output models. Her research interest is the econometric analysis of issues mainly in transport infrastructure. Heike has been in charge for a variety of national and international research and consultancy projects on infrastructure issues, the...
Research Associate Energy, Transportation, Environment
From Januar 2012 to December 2016, Helmut Lütkepohl was Dean of the DIW Berlin Graduate Center and Bundesbank Professor in the field of "Methods of Empirical Economics" at the Freie Universität Berlin. Before that, he was Professor of Econometrics at the European University Institute in Florence (2002-2011) and the Faculty of Economics at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (1992-200...
Dr. Catherine Marchewitz is a senior researcher in the Climate Policy Department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). Her research focuses on the transformation of the economy towards climate neutrality, sustainable finance and international climate finance. Currently she works on the further development and use of climate-related scenarios in various industry sectors and by...
Lorenz Meister joined the DIW GC as a PhD student in 2020. Since 2021, he has been a research associate at the SOEP and the International Economics Department. In his research, he explores the political economy of crisis interventions, and resulting distributional effects. With his research he wants to promote and shape evidence-based policy. Lorenz worked for the OECD, the United Nations...
Ph.D. Student German Socio-Economic Panel study; Research Associate International Economics
Lukas Menkhoff is the Head of the Department of International Economics at DIW Berlin, Professor of Economics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and member of the finance group at HU Berlin. His research focus is on International Finance and Financial Development.
Previously, Lukas Menkhoff served as a professor at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (joint appointment with the Kiel...
Mariza Montes de Oca León is a is a Ph.D. student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center. Her current research interests are centered around the interaction between the natural resource curse in fossil-fuel abundant economies and climate change mitigation policy.
Prior to joining the Graduate Center, Mariza worked at ICAP, the International Carbon Action Partnership, focusing on emissions trading in...
Neil Murray has been a research associate at the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) since April 2021 and is part of the Konsort SWD project "Building a Network of Secure Guest Research Workplaces". He received his M.Sc. in Economics at the Free University of Berlin, where he is currently working as a doctoral student. Besides his university studies, he worked as a student assistant in the Department of...
Research Associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
Theresa Neef is a researcher in the Macroeconomics department at DIW and a Ph.D. student at Free University Berlin. She is also part of the research team of the EU Tax Observatory and a research fellow at the World Inequality Lab at Paris School of Economics. Her expertise lies in the areas of inequality research, public economics and international taxation. Her studies explore income inequality...
Karsten Neuhoff leads the Climate Policy Department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and is Professor at the Institute for Economics and Law of Technical University Berlin. He holds a PhD in Economics from Cambridge University and Master in Physics from Heidelberg University. His research focus on the economics and financing of a low-carbon transformation in the power,...
Laura joined the DIW Graduate Center in 2018 and the Forecasting and Economic Policy Department in 2019.
After completing a B.Sc. Psychology at the University of Heidelberg, Laura obtained her B.Sc. Economics from the Free University Berlin, where she also worked as a research and teaching assistant at the chair of econometrics. Based on her bachelor’s dissertation, she published an...
Dr. Jörn C. Richstein works as a senior research associate and thematic lead "Electricity Markets" in the Climate Policy department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and is associated with the Berlin Economics Research Associates Program (BERA).
His research is focussed on the topics of electricity market design and climate policy (incl. the European Emissions...
Senior Research Associate / Thematic Lead Electricity Markets Climate Policy
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:...
Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate International Economics
Alexander is a Ph.D. student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center since October 2018. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Mannheim and his Master’s degree in economics from the University of Mannheim and the Free University of Brussels (ULB) in a joint double-degree program. Alexander’s research interests include empirical microeconomics, focusing on climate, energy,...
Research Associate & Ph.D. Student Energy, Transportation, Environment
