Gregor Fabian is a social scientist and graduate at the Humboldt University Berlin. He has been working at the DZHW since 2005. Between 2005 and 2012, he was employed as a research assistant in graduate panels and a student social survey. From 2013 to 2020, he worked as a project manager in the DZHW graduate studies. His main research focuses are the careers of university graduates and the relationship between higher education and employment.

Christophe Heger studied political science (BA) at the Freie Universität Berlin and social sciences (MA) at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. In his bachelor’s thesis, he examined the introduction of national and transnational qualification frameworks in his study “Europäisierung der beruflichen und akademischen Bildung”. His master’s thesis, “The European Working Poor, 2005-2015”, focused on the conceptualisation and empirical measurement of working poor households from a sociology of work perspective. He worked at DZHW as a student assistant from September 2017 to January 2019, on the projects “Scientists Surveys” and “Humanities, Cultural Studies, Social Sciences and Professional Practice in Graduate Education”. He has been working as a research assistant on the “Scientists Surveys” project since February 2019.

Annika Just studied psychology in Leipzig, Houston and Berlin. She has been employed as a research assistant at the DZHW Berlin since October 2022 and joined the Science Survey in May 2024. She is interested in disciplinary differences, STS and the relationship between science and society.

Dr. Jens Ambrasat studied philosophy, sociology and economics at Humboldt University in Berlin. Between 2007 and 2010, he was employed at the Institute of Social Sciences at Humboldt University in the project "Determinants of Professional Careers of University Graduates under Conditions of Flexibilized Labor Markets". After a research stay in 2010 at DIW Berlin in the SOEP department, he worked until 2013 in the project "Affective Foundations of Sociality" at the Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion" at Freie Universität Berlin, where he received his PhD with the thesis "Fine Differences in Meanings - Affective Perception and Social Variance". His main research interests at the DZHW were in the areas of research designs and survey methods, as well as subject cultures. He led the science survey from October 2018 until May 2022, when he moved to the Robert K. Merton Center for Science Research at HU Berlin.

Lian Konrad Seibold completed his Bachelor's degree in Education with a focus on Educational Management at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. He then took up the Master's programme in Educational Science at the Free University of Berlin with a specialisation in quantitative research methods. In his Bachelor's thesis, he dealt with dropouts among mathematics students with a focus on their interaction with teachers. Following on from this, his particular research interests lie in the area of university didactics and educational research around social interaction in higher education. From June 2022 to February 2023, he worked as a student assistant at the DZHW in the project "Scientists Survey".

Anne Rucker studied culture and society at the University of Bayreuth, majoring in educational science and sociology. Her bachelor's thesis dealt with the individual perception of happiness from the perspective of psychology with the help of a qualitative study. Subsequently, she took up a master's degree in educational sciences at the Free University of Berlin. In her master's thesis, she dealt with the job satisfaction of scientists in cooperation with the DZHW-Scientists Survey. From April 2019 to July 2021 she worked as a student assistant at the DZHW in the project "Scientists Survey".

Rina Wahls graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Culture and Society with a focus on sociology of education and culture at Maastricht University. She is currently studying Sociology of Education in the Master's degree programme at Uppsala University. Her research interests include the relationship between education, expertise and employment as well as (spatial) inequalities in the life course and data visualisation. As a member of the research network 'Education, Migration and Segregation', her master's thesis focuses on school choice and mobility of Swedish students after the Swedish market-oriented school reforms of the late 1980s. She supported the Scientists Survey as a student assistant from October 2021 to May 2022.

Merritt Fedzin graduated with a Bachelor's degree in European Studies from Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. She is currently studying for a Master's degree in International Affairs at Hertie School in Berlin. Her academic focus is on European foreign and security policy in the EU's eastern neighbourhood and strategy building. She joined the DZHW Scientists Survey as a student assistant from May 2023 to August 2024.

Stefan Gunzelmann completed a bachelor's degree in education and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin and is currently studying for a master's degree in education with a focus on education, higher education and science research. He is particularly interested in social inequalities and the academic pathways and attributions of achievement that are shaped by them. He is a student assistant in the Department of Empirical Research on Education and Higher Education at Freie Universität Berlin in the research project "Higher Education Dropout and Job Prospects. Experimental Studies on Access to the Labour and Vocational Education and Training Market." From October 2021 to January 2022, he completed his research internship at DZHW in the "Scientists Survey" project.