Dr Christian Brand
About
Dr Christian Brand is an Associate Professor in Transport Energy and Environment at the University of Oxford’s Transport Studies Unit and Environmental Change Institute.
His main research interests revolve around:
- the development and use of low carbon scenarios and transitions pathways to inform transport and energy policy
- the role of active travel in meeting public health and climate change goals, and
- design and evaluation of policy to meet net zero ambitions.
He has established an international reputation for his pioneering work on measuring and evaluating personal travel behaviour and its impacts on energy use, climate change and health.
He is Co-Director of the UK Energy Research Centre, where he leads projects on energy-transport systemic change and road transport decarbonisation pathways, investigator on a major UK research project on micro e-mobility, and he leads a major project in the Centre for Research on Energy Demand Solutions. He is core member of the World Health Organisation’s Health Economic Assessment Tool for walking and cycling, HEAT.
Expertise
- Energy and transport
- Energy transition
- Sustainable transport
- Net Zero
- Active travel
- Cycling
- Transport
Selected publications
- Active travel's contribution to climate change mitigation: research summary and outlook
- The climate change mitigation effects of daily active travel in cities
- The climate change mitigation impacts of active travel: Evidence from a longitudinal panel study in seven European cities
- Road to zero or road to nowhere? Disrupting transport and energy in a zero carbon world
- Accelerating the transformation to a low carbon passenger transport system: The role of car purchase taxes, feebates, road taxes and scrappage incentives in the UK
- Beyond ‘Dieselgate’: Implications of unaccounted and future air pollutant emissions and energy use for cars in the United Kingdom
- Phasing in electric vehicles: Does policy focusing on operating emission achieve net zero emissions reduction objectives?
Media experience
Mainly written or oral responses to media requests: The Times, BBC, New York Times, Telegraph. Often via comms officers of research centres/projects.
Strictly avoiding live interviews on TV or radio. Recorded is fine.
Contributing to press releases and news stories.
Writing for the Conversation and dealing with follow-up engagements (interviews, further funding)
Recent media work
- Switching From Cars to Bikes Cuts Commuting Emissions by 67%
- Cycling has a massively important role to play in creating net-zero cities, Oxford study says
- Rise of SUVs 'makes mockery' of electric car push
- Covid-19 pandemic to leave millions more ‘gas guzzlers’ on the road past 2030
- Get on your bike: active transport makes a significant impact on carbon emissions
- Electric car 'obsession' to see Net Zero goals missed, writes Oxford Uni Transport Professor
- SUVs out-sell electric vehicles 37-to-1: Popularity of gas-guzzling Chelsea Tractors 'make a mockery' of UK plans for all cars
- 'Impossible-to-cheat' emissions tests show almost all new diesels still dirty
Languages
English, German