Fernanda is a Ph.D. Student and Research Associate at the Climate Policy Department, where she is working on the topic of transition risks in energy-intensive industries related to the economy's shift towards climate neutrality. She studied Public Policy at the Hertie School and Università Bocconi for her Master's degree and completed her Bachelor's degree at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms...
Nina is a second-year doctoral researcher in the PhD program at DIW Berlin, working within the Macroeconomics Department. As a member of the institute's forecasting team, she focuses on forecasting the German inflation rate and the broader European economy. Her responsibilities include the development and refinement of forecasting models, as well as the interpretation of macroeconomic trends for...
Lars is a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and DIW Berlin. He completed his MSc at the Freie University of Berlin. During his studies he worked as a student assistant at the department for public economics and the department for energy, transport and the environment at DIW Berlin. His research interests fall into the area of applied microeconomics where he combines topics of social...
Themistoklis is a PhD Candidate in the Firms and Markets Department at the Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Berlin (DIW Berlin). He holds an MSc in Economics, a MSc in Epidemiology and Research Methodology, as well as a BSc in Mathematics. He worked as a Mathematics teacher in Greece and as a Research Associate (Pre-doc) at DIW before the start of his PhD. His research is primarily...
Carl has joined the DIW as a doctoral student in October 2023. Prior to joining DIW, he worked as an analyst at the Monopolies Commission, conducting empirical research related to the energy crisis in Europe. He obtained both a master’s and a bachelor’s degree in economics from University of Mannheim, specializing in applied econometrics, industrial organization, and energy economics. After...
Jo-Ya joined the DIW Graduate Center and the macroeconomics department in 2023. She holds a master’s degree in Economics from the University of Mainz with a specialization in International Economics. Her master’s thesis examined the policy implications and potential risks of introducing central bank digital currencies. In 2023, she interned at the ifo Center for International Economics in Munich....
Lotte Maaßen is a PhD student at the DIW Graduate Center and the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Her research interests are in the area of wealth and income inequality. Current research projects focus on the role of inheritances and parental background for the distribution of wealth in Germany and on gender gaps in capital incomes. Lotte has a master's degree in economics from Freie Universität...
Tana is a doctoral student at the Graduate Centre. She started out at the DIW in May 2023 as a predoc at the Entrepreneurship Research Group. She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Nottingham and a Master’s Degree in International Economics from the University of Tübingen. Her research interests predominantly relate primarily to applied...
Rebecca earned her bachelor's degree in economics and political science from the University of Potsdam, during which time she worked as a student assistant in the department of Public Economics at the DIW. She then completed an internship at the Bundesbank in the area of banking and financial supervision, before going on to complete her Master's degree in Economics at Freie Universität Berlin....
Maximilian Schaller is a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Economics. Following undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering at DHBW, he studied economics in the Master’s programs of RWTH Aachen and FU Berlin. Since October 2021, Maximilian worked as a research assistant at the Public Economics department of the DIW Berlin. During this time, he contributed to research on heterogeneous life...
