Rajat Gupta is the director of the multi-disciplinary Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development (OISD) and Low-Carbon Building Research Group at Oxford Brookes University (UK). He holds a senior professorial chair in sustainable architecture and climate change. Rajat’s research interests lie in evaluating building performance from a socio-technical perspective, smart local energy systems, local energy mapping, scaling up energy retrofits, and climate change adaptation. As a Principal Investigator (PI), he has won over £13 million in research grants from EPSRC, ESRC, NERC, EU, and Innovate UK to investigate these subjects. Rajat has delivered 50 conference keynotes and produced over 150 publications, including strategic research papers on the future direction of energy demand research and the evaluation of an innovative national deep renovation programme.
Rajat Gupta is the director of the multi-disciplinary Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development (OISD) and Low-Carbon Building Research Group at Oxford Brookes University (UK). He holds a senior professorial chair in sustainable architecture and climate change. Rajat’s research interests lie in evaluating building performance from a socio-technical perspective, smart local energy systems, local energy mapping, scaling up energy retrofits, and climate change adaptation. As a Principal Investigator (PI), he has won over £13 million in research grants from EPSRC, ESRC, NERC, EU, and Innovate UK to investigate these subjects. Rajat has delivered 50 conference keynotes and produced over 150 publications, including strategic research papers on the future direction of energy demand research and the evaluation of an innovative national deep renovation programme.