Josue Ortega

Dr. Josue Ortega is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Queen's University Belfast's Queen's Business School, specializing in market design and fair resource allocation. He holds a PhD from the University of Glasgow (2017) and an MSc from the Vienna Institute for Advanced Studies (2014). His research focuses on social integration dynamics, fair division of resources, and school choice mechanisms, published in journals like Games and Economic Behavior and Journal of Mathematical Economics. His work has been featured in outlets such as The Economist, MIT Technology Review, and BBC's Thinking Allowed.

• Education:
• PhD in Economics, University of Glasgow, 2017
• MSc in Economics, Vienna Institute for Advanced Studies, 2014

His research interests include market design, social integration, and algorithmic fairness. He has led projects such as 'School choice and matching markets' funded by ESRC and Leibniz Association. His recent work analyzes strategy-proofness in school choice mechanisms and fair division algorithms.

Awards:

• Early Career Mathematician Catherine Richards Prize 2016
• Nomination for Queen’s Teaching Awards 2021
• Queen’s Management School Research Funding Innovation Prize 2022
• Seal of Excellence, Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship 2019

He advises PhD students, including Taylor Knipe, and serves on program committees for conferences like the Royal Economic Society and Economics and Computation. His administrative roles include Chair of the Student Voice Committee in the Economics Department.