Sandra Gottschalk

Dr. Sandra Gottschalk is a Senior Researcher at ZEW-Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung.
She joined the ZEW Research Department "Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics" as a researcher in 1998.
Her research focuses on topics concerning the founding and closing of enterprises.
In particular, she analyses the influence of the founder's human capital relating to performance, development, and probability of closing of start-up enterprises.
Furthermore, her research work includes anonymization methods of firm-level data.
She is head of the ZEW Research Data Centre (ZEW-FDZ) and is therefore responsible for the administration of ZEW research data, which are provided to external scientists for research purposes.
She completed her dissertation "Unternehmensdaten Zwischen Datenschutz und Analysepotential" in 2004, dealing with methods for generating factual anonymized firm-level microdata and their use for statistical and econometrical analyses.