Department: Economía aplicada

Centre: *Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais

Research center: CIM-UVigo

Campus: Vigo

Research group: Futures Oceans Lab

Email: elenaojea@uvigo.es

Personal web: https://futureoceanslab.org/

Doctor by the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela with the thesis Anomalies in contingent valuation, plausible empirical explanations 2008. Supervised by Dr. María L. Loureiro García.

Elena Ojea is a senior researcher at CIM-University of Vigo currently leading the Future Oceans Lab, a CIM-based research group on marine systems and climate change. Elena holds an undergrad in Environmental Sciences and a PhD in Economics, and has experience as a post-doc and research fellow at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3). She was a visiting researcher at the Bren School for Environmental Science and Policy (USA) during 2013, continuing visiting over the following years. There she joined the sustainable fisheries group and had the chance to work with experts at UCSB on the set of solutions for sustainable fishery management in many systems that are implemented around the world. To continue this work, Elena joined the University of Vigo in the summer of 2016 with the project CLOCK: Climate Adaptation to shifting stocks, funded by the European Research Council with an ERC Starting Grant. She has been involved in the last IPCC Assessment Report (6AR) as Lead Author for the WGII Oceans chapter.