Robert Lowe is Professor of Energy and Building Science at the Bartlett, University College London (UCL). He is a physicist with a broad interest in the field of buildings, energy and sustainability. After studying Natural Sciences at Cambridge from 1974-77, he joined the Open University Energy Research Group where he studied the impacts of dispersed arrays of wind turbines on electricity grids, passive solar heating in housing and undertook one of the earliest studies of micro-chp in the UK.

After a brief interlude at Sheffield University, he moved to Leeds Metropolitan University, where he directed numerous laboratory, field and desk studies relating to climate change and the energy and environmental performance of housing. These included the Stamford Brook project, which has trialled an enhanced energy performance standard for new housing. In February 2006 he joined the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies at University College London where he holds the chair of Energy and Building Science.

He is a member of the FMNectar Consortium which supports the DCLG in the development of UK building performance standards and was involved in the development of the 2006 revision of Part L of the Building Regulations.