NELIDA CECILIA LAMELAS CASTELLANOS

Nelida Cecilia Lamelas Castellanos serves as a Contracted Professor (Assistant Professor equivalent) in the Department of Applied Economics at the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, where she contributes to teaching and research in applied economic disciplines.

Her academic foundation includes a Doctorate from the University of Santiago de Compostela (2003), with doctoral research titled "Education and social development in the Andean community, an econometric analysis" supervised by Dra. María Teresa Cancelo Márquez and Dr. Eva Aguayo Lorenzo. This work established her expertise in quantitative analysis of socio-educational development.

Her research program centers on sustainable economic systems, with emphasis on:

• Bioeconomy frameworks for resource management
• Ecological economics modeling
• Natural resource valuation methodologies
• Econometric techniques for policy analysis
• Education's role in social development
• Economics of educational systems

She actively participates in the "Bioeconomy Ecological and natural resource economics" research group, driving interdisciplinary projects that integrate environmental sustainability with economic policy design for natural resource-dependent communities.