Legal systems, administration, and markets are important research topics. Without knowledge of how goods flow and markets function, we will soon face the next crash.

• Prof. Dr. Sabine Zinn (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): The professor of social science methods at Humboldt-Universität was recently appointed as the first woman to the board of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and as director of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). She had already been acting director of the latter for three years; it is the most important cross-sectional study on life in Germany. She has modernized it, for example by including new immigrants in the study.

All of today's (October 9, 2025) “100 most important minds in Berlin science” in the Tagesspiegel (T+, in German).