
Lecturer in Energy and Buildings
Stephanie Gauthier
Lecturer in Energy and Buildings
University of Southampton
s.gauthier@soton.ac.uk
Biography
Stephanie has over seven years of consultancy experience mostly focused in building and infrastructure. Before joining UCL Stephanie worked at Arup, Atkins and ADPi. These companies operate in a multi-disciplinary mode, where architecture, engineering, cost consultancy, urban design and product design are integrated within one team. As an architect and project manager, she has collaborated on schemes in Abu Dhabi, UK, France and China; including the Oriental Art Center in Shanghai, the King Alfred Development in association with Gehry Partners, BSkyB broadcast center in London and Abu Dhabi National Stadium. Her degree and diploma were in Architecture followed by an MSc in Environmental Design and Engineering and PhD with the UCL Energy Institute.
Stephanie’s PhD developed a new method to assess human thermal comfort using ubiquitous sensors, and introduced an extended model of behavioural responses to cold thermal discomfort. Building on this work, Stephanie was a research associate at UCL Energy Institute, and is now a lecturer in Energy and Buildings within the Faculty of Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton.
The LoLo CDT in Energy Demand is a unique learning environment with an extensive range of disciplines. During my PhD, this group enabled me to engage with different methods of data collection and analysis originating from divers bodies of knowledge, in particular building physic and social science.
Developing a method to monitor thermal discomfort response variability – thesis [PDF 5MB]
Conference proceedings
Gauthier, S. Shipworth, D. (2014). Variability of thermal stratification in naturally ventilated residential buildings. Conference proceedings: Building Simulation and Optimization, BSO14. 23-24 June 2014, London, UK. [Accepted, November 2013]
Gauthier, S. Shipworth, D. (2014). Generating empirical probabilities of metabolic rate and clothing insulation values in field studies using wearable sensors. Conference proceedings: 13th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, 7-12 July 2014, Hong Kong. [Accepted, December 2013]
Journal articles