We at the GGP Central Hub are proud to welcome two new colleagues to our team this year, Yuri Pettinicchi, who has joined as Deputy Director and Claudius Garten, who is managing the Harmonised Histories dataset at our node in the German Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB). We are excited about the expertise and enthusiasm they bring to their roles!
Yuri Pettinicchi joins the team as the Deputy Director of the GGP. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Venice (2012). Before joining GGP, he spent a decade working with the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), bringing extensive experience in survey research and cross-national data infrastructures.
He has also served as a task leader in several EU-funded projects, including SERISS and SSHOC.
Claudius Garten is a researcher at the BiB and is responsible for the Harmonized Histories at GGP. He holds a Master's degree in Social Science from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. In June 2025, he successfully defended his doctoral thesis on subjective well-being, social inequality and public pensions in Europe at the TU Dortmund University. Prior to working at BiB, he was a research associate at the TU Dortmund University, the ISG Institute for Social Research and the University of Cologne.
