Juan Pedro Díaz Martínez (M.A.)
Responsibilities
- Research Assistant at the Chair of Economic Policy Journalism
- Supporting the organisation of the Chair
- Contributing to the book project "Deutschland in Nahaufnahmen" with the Bertelsmann Stiftung
Juan Pedro Díaz Martínez comes from Spain and has been a Research Assistant at the Chair of Economic Policy Journalism since 1 October 2026. He studied economics in Madrid before moving to Dortmund for his Master's degree in Economic Policy Journalism. In his Master's thesis he examined how economic uncertainty shapes investment in Germany and Spain, and what role the topics covered in the media play in this. Previously he worked as a student assistant at TU Dortmund's TIE Institute and at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He has also gained experience at the European Central Bank and the European Parliament, as well as in newsrooms in Cologne.
Fields of research and teaching
- Text-based uncertainty indicators and topic modelling (rollingLDA)
- Economic uncertainty and its effects on investment decisions
- Empirical macroeconomics: vector autoregressive (VAR) models and impulse response analysis
- Cross-country comparisons in Europe
Background
- Since 10/2026: Research Assistant, Chair of Economic Policy Journalism, TU Dortmund
- 2024 - 2026: Master's studies in Economic Policy Journalism, TU Dortmund
- Since 07/2026: Member, The F Word Youth Advisory – Beta Festival
- 04/2026 – 05/2026: Editorial intern, heute-show, Cologne
- 10/2024 – 03/2026: Student assistant, TIE Institute, TU Dortmund
- Since 2024: Student assistant, Place Beyond Bytes, University of Duisburg-Essen
- 02/2025 – 03/2025: Editorial intern, Wortwert, Cologne
- 06/2023 – 09/2024: Data Governance Analyst, Santander Consumer Finance, Mönchengladbach
- 05/2022 – 05/2023: Trainee, Policy Design Team, Employee Services Division, European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main
- 10/2021 – 04/2022: Schuman Trainee, Secretariat of the Committee on Budgetary Control, European Parliament, Brussels
- 10/2021 – 02/2022: Events Coordinator, Schuman Trainees Committee, European Parliament, Brussels
- 02/2021 - 05/2021: Intern in commercial banking, Ibercaja, Madrid
- 2017 - 2021: B.Sc. in Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Erasmus+ at Maastricht University, 2019 to 2020)
