Sophie M. Behr joined the DIW Berlin Graduate Center as a PhD candidate in October 2021. Her research interests lie in climate economics and policy, and particularly include circular economy and carbon pricing. Sophie holds a BSc in Economics from the Leuphana University of Lüneburg and a MSc in Economics from the University of Hamburg and spent parts of her studies at the University of Bologna,...
Research Associate Climate Policy; Ph.D. Student Graduate Center
I completed my BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences from the Amsterdam University College in the Netherlands and participated in an exchange program at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. I obtained my MSc in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden, where I also worked as a research assistant at the Mistra Centre for Sustainable Markets (MISUM). My research...
Felix is a PhD student at the DIW’s Graduate Center. Prior to joining the program, he worked with an economic consultancy in London focusing on energy market arbitration and litigation projects. His research interests lie in the fields of energy economics and operations research for power systems. Felix holds a Master of Science in Advanced Economics and Finance from Copenhagen Business...
Ph.D. Student Graduate Center; Member of Department Energy, Transportation, Environment
Before joining the DIW GC Ben studied at the Free University of Berlin where he graduated with a M.Sc. in Economics. During his studies Ben worked as a student assistant in the European Parliament, the German Minimum Wage Commission and in the macroeconomics department of the DIW. From May 2018 to December 2020 Ben took a break from his studies to work in the International Policy Analysis division...
Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
Yogam Tchokni has been a PhD student at the DIW Graduate Center since 2021 and is a research associate at the Socio-Economic Panel. He completed his M.Sc. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics at the London School of Economics. Previously, he worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Mannheim and as a Data Scientist. His research focuses on topics of migration, discrimination,...
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