Rate My Professor Rajat Gupta

Professor Rajat Gupta is Professor of Sustainable Architecture and Climate Change at Oxford Brookes University in the School of Architecture, holding a senior professorial chair at the highest level. He is Director of the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development and the Low Carbon Building Research Group. His research focuses on evaluating building performance from a socio-technical perspective, smart energy systems, local area energy mapping, scaling up energy retrofits, indoor air quality, and overheating in care settings and homes. Gupta has taught undergraduate and postgraduate modules on building performance evaluation and low carbon building technologies since 2004. He has led major projects as Principal Investigator, including RESIDE (£1.3m EPSRC-DST Newton Fund, 2017-2022) on residential energy demand reduction in India, EVALOC (£1.14m ESRC/EPSRC), Learn-BPE (£50k RAEng Newton Fund, 2017-2019), and MaS-SHIP (£140k UN funded, 2017-2019). As Co-Investigator, he contributes to EnergyREV (£8m EPSRC), Local Energy Oxfordshire (£13.8m Innovate UK), and NERC-funded projects on climate resilience in care settings.