An researcher receives prestigious financial aid y Cajal financial aid from the Spanish government

Raúl Bajo-Buenestado, researcher Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) at the University of Navarra, has been awarded the prestigious Ramón y Cajal financial aid contracts granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities to researchers with outstanding careers in research and development centers.

With this funding, the researcher his work the Navarra Center for International Development (where he is researcher ), addressing issues related to energy and the environment and industrial organization. Specifically, he will focus on Economics , combining theory with empirical analysis, to respond to public policies related to these issues.

The expert has specified this work research such as an analysis of the increase in hot nights, due to climate change, on labor productivity; the impact of illegal Russian oil ( following sanctions for the invasion of Ukraine) on the domestic industry of European countries; and an analysis of the impact of changes in gasoline prices on sales of electric and hybrid cars.

The researcher also researcher to undertake a new project to the demographic aspects of climate change. As he explained, this would be a project examines how population changes impact CO2 emissions and how innovation and development "play a role in this relationship, which in many cases is misunderstood and leads to confusion and beliefs that, in extreme cases, promote the (erroneous) belief that having children is a bad idea for the planet," he said.

For Bajo-Buenestado, this financial aid a moral boost to continue with his degree program . "In addition to being an honor, it is a responsibility and an incentive to 'aim high' because I must respond with high-quality work that addresses questions of social relevance and impact," he said. written request the researcher that his work researcher y Cajal researcher will have a positive impact on the ICS, "since the goal ICS is precisely to address questions of social relevance and have an impact, for which, as I said before, we must address important questions and do so rigorously," he concluded.

Ramón y Cajal grants are awarded for a period of five years and goal promote recruitment of researchers with outstanding careers, as well as encouraging the creation of work . They are funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities - State Agency for research by the European Social Fund Plus.