Sandra Gottschalk

Dr. Sandra Gottschalk is a Researcher at the ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in the Department of Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics. She has been affiliated with ZEW since 1998 and currently serves as head of the ZEW Research Data Centre (ZEW-FDZ), overseeing administration and provision of anonymized firm-level microdata for academic research. Her work bridges empirical economics, enterprise dynamics, and data science methodologies.

• PhD: Unternehmensdaten zwischen Datenschutz und Analysepotential (2004)
• Specializes in: Startup performance, Human capital in entrepreneurship, Data anonymization

Dr. Gottschalk's research intersects with real-time economic analysis, as evidenced by her involvement in the project Medium-sized Companies in the Corona Crisis, where she contributed to merging web analytics with enterprise panel data to track crisis responses. Her publications focus on technology transfer mechanisms and econometric policy frameworks. She collaborates with institutions like istari.ai (AI analytics) and Kantar (survey execution).