Rajat Gupta is 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 decarbonising the building sector through energy efficiency, renewables and smart energy systems; local energy mapping for scaling up energy retrofits; and climate change adaptation. As Principal Investigator (PI) he has won over £13 million in research grants from UK Research Councils (EPSRC, ESRC, NERC), Innovate UK and EU to investigate these subjects. 

Rajat is Principal Investigator (PI) of a £1.3 million EPSRC-DST Newton Fund sponsored RESIDE project on residential building energy demand reduction in India (2017-2022). He is also Co-Investigator on the £9 million EPSRC EnergyRev project on scaling up smart local energy systems and PI of the £382k EPSRC EnergyREV Plus project on smart energy tools for enhancing user engagement in local energy projects. He is also lead academic on the Innovate UK £15.2 million smart local energy system demonstrator, Local Energy Oxfordshire (2019-2023). 

Rajat has advised various Government departments at senior level and is member of several technical committees and task groups. He is currently an embedded researcher with the UK's Ministry of Justice and the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, leading research on overheating in buildings.