Dr. Jens Ambrasat studied Philosophy, Sociology, and Economics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. From 2007 to 2010 he worked in the project "Factors Determining the Occupational Careers of University Graduates under Conditions of Flexibilized Labor Markets" at the Institute of Social Science, HU Berlin. After a research stay in the SOEP Department at DIW Berlin until 2013, he was engaged in the project "Affective Foundations of Sociality" at the Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion", Freie Universität Berlin. He completed his doctorate with a thesis on Sociocultural Differences in Affective Meaning. His focal points at the DZHW lie in the development of research designs, survey methodology as well as theory and praxis of disciplinary cultures. Since October 2018 he leads the project "Wissenschaftsbefragung".

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.

Annegret Rucker studied Culture and Society with the main subjects Education Science and Sociology at the Universität Bayreuth. Her bachelor thesis dealt with the individual perception of happiness from a psychological perspective with the use of qualitative study. She is currently studying Educational Sciences for her master's degree at the Freie Universität Berlin. In her master's thesis, she will deal with the job satisfaction of scientists in cooperation with the DZHW science survey. Since April 2019 she has been working as a student assistant at the DZHW in the project "Science Survey".