RWI Team

Dr. Sandra Schaffner

Head, “FDZ Ruhr”

Sandra Schaffner has been a research associate at RWI since April 2005. Since February 2012 she has been heads the Research Data Center (FDZ Ruhr) at RWI. During her work at RWI she received her PhD in Economics from Ruhr-University Bochum (Prof. Christoph M. Schmidt). Before that, she studied industrial engineering and management at the Technical University of Darmstadt, specializing in electrical engineering (communications engineering).

Research Interests

Regional economics, labour market economics, applied econometrics