Mathias Dolls has been Deputy Director of the ifo Centre for Macroeconomics and Surveys since 2017. Prior to that he was deputy head of the research group "International Distribution and Redistribution" at the ZEW in Mannheim. He received his doctorate at the University of Cologne in 2012 and in 2017 he was awarded the Schmölders Prize, which is awarded annually for behavioural research in economic life by the Financial Studies Committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik. Mathias Dolls is scientific coordinator of the EconPol Europe network.