Denis Gerstorf

Denis Gerstorf serves as a Research Fellow at the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, an infrastructure facility of the Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), with primary affiliation at the Institute of Psychology, Humboldt University of Berlin.

His research centers on life course dynamics and socio-economic inequality, leveraging the SOEP's longitudinal household data to investigate aging processes and developmental trajectories. This work bridges psychological and economic perspectives to analyze how socio-structural conditions shape individual well-being across time.

As a core contributor to the SOEP research group 'Life Course and Inequality,' he participates in designing and implementing one of Europe's most influential longitudinal studies, which has tracked German households since 1984 across economic, health, and social domains.