Santiago Budría is a microeconometrician mostly interested in labour, education, inequality, and well-being. At the present time he is pursuing work investigating the role of economic insecurity and energy poverty in determining well-being levels in modern societies.
He has published more than 30 JCR papers and 4 book chapters. His Google Scholar h-index is h-22, with a total of more than 700 citations in the last 5 years. He has two certified sexenios (2007-2012, 2013-2018) by the Spanish Comisión Nacional Evaluadora de la Actividad Investigadora.
He is the Scientific Coordinator of the Phd Program in Business and Economics: Welfare and Internationalization, by UNED – Universidad Antonio de Nebrija. For the last 5 years he has been the Scientific Director of ECEMIN, a research group hosted by the Universidad Antonio de Nebrija formed by more than 10 young and senior scholars from different institutions. His responsibilities include, among others, stablishing research priorities, assembling individual research agendas, accountability of research output and recruiting of researchers.
Participation in projects: Member of long-duration competitive projects financed under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission (HPSE-CT-2002-00108), the National I+D+i Plans since 2008 (PID2019-111765GB-I00, ECO2015-63734, ECO2012-36480, ECO2012-33993, ECO2008-04321, TED2021-132824B-I00), the Regional Government of Madrid (R&D Program in Social Sciences and Humanities, OPINBI project, Ref: H2019/HUM-5793), the Regional Government of Andalucía (P07.SEJ.03261 and P07.SEJ.0487), Ramón Areces and the Spanish Institute of Fiscal Studies.