Aparajita Datta has joined the UH Energy division as our new Energy Policy Associate. She brings nearly a decade of experience at UH, including eight years as part of the Division’s research team.
Her work focuses on energy affordability and security, evaluating administrative burdens as a source of inequality in American institutions and policies. She also works on multidisciplinary themes related to infrastructure resilience and reliability, federal and state policies to support and advance low-carbon technologies, public opinion and education, and workforce development. She most enjoys conceptualizing and measuring individual- and household-level impacts originating from the feedback between innovations and technologies, infrastructure, and policies related to systemic societal issues.
She formerly served as a Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and a Fellow for Civically Engaged Research at the American Political Science Association. She was also a member of the University of Houston’s inaugural class of Chevron Energy Graduate Fellows.
Aparajita holds a bachelor's in computer science and engineering from the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, India. She is a four-time Coog! She holds master’s degrees in energy management (C. T. Bauer College of Business), in public policy (Hobby School of Public Affairs), and in political science (College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences), and a PhD in political science from the University of Houston.