Carina Cornesse is Head of the German Socio-Economic Panel Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) and German Social Cohesion Panel (SCP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). She is also a research associate at the Data Centre Social Cohesion of the Research Institute Social Cohesion located at the University of Bremen and an associate editor of the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology (JSSAM) as well as “methods, data, analyses” (mda). Carina is a survey methods researcher. Her work focuses on the benefits and limitations of probability-based and nonprobability survey samples, the recruitment and maintenance of panel studies, the application of mixed-mode data collection designs, and on linking survey data to data from other sources.

Olga Maslovskaya is an Associate Professor in Survey Research and Social Statistics at the University of Southampton, UK. She is a Survey Methodologist and is interested in all aspects of surveys, her special interests are the areas of survey data collection, data quality, and (non)-probability surveys.   Olga is a Principal Investigator (PI) and the lead of the Survey Data Collection Network (SDC-Net) in the UK which investigates impact of Covid-19 pandemic on survey data collection.  She was previously a PI and the lead of GenPopWeb2 international network of academic and non-academic partners. GenPopWeb2 network addressed issues associated with transitioning to online data collection.  Olga is also a Co-Investigator on ESRC-funded project “The Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) in the UK: Investigating demographic changes in the family and advancing online survey methodology“. She leads the work package responsible for the design of the survey and also for methodological experiments and developments which have been implemented in the first wave of the survey in the UK. Olga has an extensive experience of analyzing wide range of large-scale datasets and of employing various advanced statistical methods in different research contexts.