Dr Amaya Vega is a senior lecturer in Economics at the Faculty of Business, ATU Galway, with over 20 years’ experience in academia. Her research is in transport and regional economics, maritime economics, and ports. She is interested in the economics of sustainable transport and the identification of the incentives required to enable the low carbon transition of transport systems. Dr Amaya Vega has experience in freight transport demand analysis, spatial modelling, sustainability and accessibility analysis, and economic evaluation methods. She leads the international freight connectivity research stream of the HEA-funded flagship Atlantic Futures project, and she is the co-lead of the EMBRACE Mobility project, funded by SFI under the National Challenge Fund for Sustainable Communities.

Dr Amaya Vega is also a member of the working group for the Sustainable Mobility Index for rural towns in Ireland’s Western region. Dr Amaya Vega has published in leading international peer-reviewed journals including Transport Policy, Transportation Research Part A – Policy and Practice, Case Studies on Transport Policy, Research in Transportation Economics, Maritime Business Review, and Marine Policy. Currently, Dr Amaya Vega is an associate research fellow at the Institute of International Economics at the University of Valencia, Spain. Dr Amaya Vega was awarded a Ph.D. in Economics from University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland.