Luca Kogelheide
Luca Kogelheide is a quantitative methodologist and PhD student at the Institute of Employment Research (IAB), Germany. He studied Psychology (B.Sc.) at the University of Witten/Herdecke from 2020 to 2023. From 2023 to 2025, he completed the research master’s programme “Methodology and Statistics for the Behavioral, Biomedical and Social Sciences” (M.Sc.) at Utrecht University, including the European Master in Official Statistics in cooperation with Statistics Netherlands.
Since October 2025, he has been a PhD student and scholarship holder within the Graduate Programme of the IAB, as well as a researcher at the IAB’s Statistical Methods Center. His research focuses on survey statistics and data quality in labour market panel surveys, with a particular emphasis on mode effects, measurement error, and panel conditioning.
Experience
PhD Student in Social Data Science
Institute for Employment Research (IAB) & University of Mannheim
Researcher
Statistical Methods Center of the IAB
Intern
Statistics Netherlands
Research Assistant
Utrecht University - Chair of Historical Sociology
Teaching Assistant
University of Witten/Herdecke - Module: Personality Psychology & Module: Social Psychology
Education
Graduate Programme (GradAB)
Institute for Employment Research (IAB) & University of Mannheim
Dissertation: Improving the Reliability of Panel Survey Data for Labor Market Research: A Methodological Perspective on Mode Effects, Measurement Error, and Conditioning Bias (working title)
Research Master in Methodology and Statistics (European Master in Official Statistics)
Utrecht University (Statistics Netherlands)
Master’s thesis: Comparing Machine Learning and Statistical Models in Capture-Recapture Estimation: A Simulation Study on Bias and Precision
Bachelor in Psychology
University of Witten/Herdecke
Bachelor’s thesis: Disgust and Politics: Investigating the Causal Mechanism Between Pathogen-Avoidance and Conservatism