Deepti Chatti, PhD, PE, LEED AP is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, core faculty in the Critical Gender Studies Program, and affiliate faculty with the South Asia Initiative at the University of California San Diego. 

An engineer turned ethnographer, Dr. Chatti draws on her interdisciplinary training in the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and engineering to study urgent socio-environmental questions related to sustainable development, energy access, climate change, and gender justice. A collaborative and engaged scholar, Dr. Chatti partners with community-based organizations in India and the United States to carry out her research. 

Her scholarship and writing appear in Environment and Society: Advances in Research, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Energy Research and Social Science, Brown Journal of World Affairs, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology, in several edited volumes, and in other venues. For a more complete list of publications, please visit her website. 

She is currently working on a book manuscript about energy access, air pollution, and climate justice in India based on long-term multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork.

Her research has been enabled by support from the Strategic Growth Council of California, the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative, the McCrone Promising Faculty Scholars Award at Cal Poly Humboldt, the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, the South Asian Studies Council at Yale, the Tropical Resources Initiative at Yale, the Yale Institute for Biospheric Research, the Yale School of the Environment, and the US Environmental Protection Agency.