About
Stephanie Gauthier is an Associate Professor in Energy and Buildings within the Energy and Climate Change Group and the Director of Recruitment to the School of Engineering at the University of Southampton.
She has been an academic at Southampton since 2015. Having graduated in Architecture from the University of Paris Val de Seine, she completed her MSc in Environmental Design and Engineering and her PhD in Energy and the Built Environment at University College London. Having completed her PGCert in Academic Practice at the University of Southampton, she is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Her research focuses on energy demand in buildings, specifically occupants’ behaviours and thermal comfort. Her research projects include infrastructure systems and health, social care interventions, flexible demand-side management trials, low carbon technologies uptake in UK homes, trials of technologies in district heating networks. Currently, she is a co-I on several funded projects, including the EPSRC funded LATENT project.
She coordinates recruitment and leads the Sustainable Energy and Buildings theme of the UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for Sustainability. This CDT trains 70 PhD students in the application of AI to improve the environment.
She teaches Building Physics and Statistics on MSc courses; and is a Design Tutor on Civil Engineering Undergraduate courses.