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...
Marianna Magagnoli is a postdoctoral researcher at the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) since September 2025. She holds a PhD from the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB). Her research lies at the intersection of urban, transport, and environmental economics. In particular, she studies the implications of improving environmental friendliness in cities on real...
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...
Andrea Marchitto is a research associate at SOEP and has been working on the SUARE project (Longitudinal Study of Refugees from Ukraine in Germany) since 2023. He studied political science at the Free University of Berlin. His research interests include health, discrimination, and integration of migrants into the German society, with particular focus on refugees and their families.
Dr. Mariel McKone Leonard is a researcher with more than ten years’ experience in mixed methods survey research. She specializes in research with small, rare, and vulnerable populations, as well as conducting research within sensitive contexts. Mariel is Project Coordinator for the Surveying Panel Participants’ Network Members: Integration of Egocentric Data Collection and Respondent-Driven...
Dr. Lorenz Meister is a research associate at the Socio-Economic Panel. His research focuses on political economy, with an emphasis on threats to democracy. He had research stays at the World Inequality Lab at Paris School of Economics (2025), at Harvard’s Opportunity Insights Lab (2024), and at the Department of Political Economy at King's College. He previously worked for the OECD, the United...
Lukas Menkhoff is Research Associate in the Socio-Economic Panel at DIW Berlin, Professor (em.) of Economics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and member of the Finance Group at HU Berlin. His research focus is on International Finance, in particular foreign exchange markets, and Financial Development, including the impact of financial education, for example in Africa.
Until 2023 he was head of...
Dr. Cristóbal Moya is a researcher at SOEP investigating how people understand and respond to social and economic inequalities. Current projects focus on status disadvantages and fairness preferences, beliefs about gender inequality in labor markets, and the social legitimacy of redistribution. He uses a variety of methods, including survey experiments, computational text analysis, and panel data...
Anna-Tabea Müller is a specialist in market and social research at the SOEP. Since 2022 she has been working for the project German Social Cohesion Panel (SCP), which analyses social cohesion in Germany in cooperation with the University of Bremen.
Neil Murray has been a research associate at the German Institute for Economic Research in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) since 2021. He received his doctoral degree in Economics from Freie Universität Berlin in 2025. His research interests focus on the determinants and economic implications of decision-making under risk and uncertainty. As head of the RDCnet project, which is part of KonsortSWD,...
Research associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
Jana Nebelin is the Deputy Head of the Data Operation and Research Data Center Division at SOEP. Within the Research Data Center, she is responsible for defining raw data, coordinating communication with the survey institute, and overseeing data input control as well as data integration both within and across survey years. The underlying processes are managed through metadata, giving her...
Deputy Head of the SOEP Division German Socio-Economic Panel study; Research associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
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,...
Levent Neyse is a behavioral economist studying how people make economic and social decisions. His research uses surveys and experiments to explore preferences, beliefs, and decision-making processes. He also works on meta-scientific topics such as measurement, replicability, and research transparency in the social sciences. He leads the SOEP Innovation Sample at DIW Berlin and is the co-PI of the...
Research associate German Socio-Economic Panel study; Head of SOEP-IS German Socio-Economic Panel study
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....
Laura joined the DIW Berlin in 2018. She completed her PhD within the DIW Graduate Center and at Freie Universität Berlin and works as a Research Associate in the Macroeconomics department. Already during her doctoral studies, she contributed to the DIW's economic forecasts, where she is responsible for analyzing and forecasting investment activity in Germany. Her research interests include...
Researcher Macroeconomics; Researcher Forecasting and Economic Policy
Knarik Poghosyan is a research associate in the Entrepreneurship Research Group at DIW Berlin. She obtained a Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of Dortmund. Her research work is focused on innovation and regional economics, entrepreneurship, public policy analysis, and applied microeconometrics.
