Advisor: David Zilberman
PhD, Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley, 2009
MS, Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, 2001
University of California, Los Angeles - Present
- Associate Professor, Environment and Sustainability
- Director, Leadership in Sustainability Certificate Program
Deepak Rajagopal is an assistant professor in the Institute of Environment and Sustainability and the Department of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles.
He has a Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from University of California, Berkeley and Master of Science degrees in Agricultural and Resource Economics (UC Berkeley), and Mechanical Engineering (University of Maryland, College Park) and Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical engineering (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras).
Prior to coming to UCLA, was also a post-doctoral researcher at the Energy Biosciences Institute, UC Berkeley. He was visiting assistant professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana between 2013-2015.
He also three years of experience as a Structural Integrity and Reliability Engineer at United Technologies Research Center in Hartford, Connecticut.
His areas of research include Lifecycle assessment, Energy and Agricultural Economics and Policy, Climate Policy, Food-Energy-Water Nexus, Sustainability of Bioenergy systems.
The courses he teaches include Lifecycle assessment, Energy, Environment and Development, and Tools for sustainability assessment.
- Life cycle assessment
- Industrial ecology
- Energy and agricultural economics
