Dr Sukumar Natarajan BArch, MPhil, PhD Professor Sukumar Natarajan
Sukumar's research interests include building energy modelling, smart meter interface design, impacts of climate change on buildings, occupant thermal comfort.
Contact details
s.natarajan@bath.ac.uk +44 (0)1225 386358
Research
- Building energy modeling
- Energy behavior
- Smart meter interface design
- Impacts of climate change on buildings
- Occupant thermal comfort
Projects
- ENLITEN, EPSRC, EP/K002724/1
This person is available to supervise research degree projects
Publications
Role
Dr Sukumar Natarajan was appointed Reader in the Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering in YYYY.
Related posts
- Director of Studies for MSc Architectural Engineering: Environmental Design
- Deputy Director of the Centre for Energy and the Design of Environments (EDEn)
Career
Sukumar spent a short period working for the Centre for Science and Environment in New Delhi. He has been involved in a number of projects on energy use in buildings and thermal comfort including the COPSE project (EPSRC, EP/F038135/1) as principal investigator looking at the thermal comfort implications of a warming climate.
Much of Sukumar's work is of an inter-disciplinary nature and he has been instrumental in bringing together techniques from computer science and psychology to these mainly engineering problems.
Education
- BArch in Architecture, Sushant School of Art and Architecture in India
- MPhil in Environmental Design, Martin Centre in Cambridge
- PhD on "Modelling energy use and carbon emissions from the UK domestic sector", University of Manchester