Beate Jochimsen joined MPG as a research guest in January 2002 working in the areas of public finance, fiscal federalism and public choice. She is especially interested in the following research fields: conflicts in fiscal federalism, voting behavior on national and European levels, eastern enlargement and financing of the EU as well as fiscal equalisation systems and methods.

After studying in Heidelberg, London and Cologne, Beate Jochimsen was a research assistant at the Technical University of Berlin from 1996 to 1999, where she finished her Ph.D. thesis on “The Finances of the European Union”. In 2000 and 2001 she worked as the chief of staff to Berlin's Federal Minister of Finance. Since the beginning of 2002, she is a senior lecturer and research assistant at the Free University, Berlin.

Beate Jochimsen accepted a position at the Berlin School of Economics in April 2010.