Dr. Oktoviano Gandhi

Dr. Oktoviano Gandhi

Scientist

Email

ogandhi@hbku.edu.qa

Office location

RC-B2-1235 (C123)

Dr. Oktoviano Gandhi

Scientist

Educational Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Master of Physics (MPhys) (Integrated Bachelor’s and Master’s)

Entity

Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute

Biography

Dr. Oktoviano Gandhi is a Scientist at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University. His research covers renewable energy and storage systems, focusing on their techno-economics and integration into power systems. He previously spent eleven years at the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS), National University of Singapore (NUS), most recently as Senior Research Fellow. There, he led the SERIS Global Floating PV Database and the PV grid integration work of a national solar forecasting programme delivered for Singapore’s Energy Market Authority and Singapore Power.

Dr. Gandhi has authored more than 50 highly cited international publications, including in top journals such as Joule, Energy & Environmental Science, Nature Reviews Clean Technology, and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, and two books with Springer Nature. 

Dr. Gandhi contributes to IEA PVPS reports and has been featured in Vanity Fair, Tatler, and PV Tech. He has also advised government ministries, state-owned enterprises, and industry on renewable energy and energy transition topics. He holds an MPhys from the University of Oxford and a PhD from NUS, where he was Valedictorian and received the Springer Thesis Award.
 

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

National University of Singapore

2019

Master of Physics (MPhys) (Integrated Bachelor’s and Master’s)

University of Oxford

2015

  • PV system performance and degradation
  • Floating PV, inland and offshore
  • Grid integration of PV and battery energy storage
  • Techno-economics and energy policy

Scientist

Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University

2026 – Present

Senior Research Fellow

Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS), National University of Singapore

2024 – 2026

Research Fellow

Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS), National University of Singapore

2019 – 2024

Visiting Researcher

Electrical Engineering and Applied Electronics, Tsinghua University

2018

Research Scholar and Teaching Assistant

SERIS and NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, National University of Singapore

2015 – 2019

Gandhi, O., Rodríguez-Gallegos, C. D., Ting, S. A., Rahman, T., Vinayagam, L., Sun, H., Yacob Ali, J. M., Yagli, G. M., Alvarez-Alvarado, M. S., Pillai, D. S., Lin, F., & Reindl, T. (2026). Design and implementation of floating photovoltaics. Nature Reviews Clean Technology, 2, 414–432. 

Rodríguez-Gallegos, C. D., Gandhi, O., Sun, H., Ting, S. A., Hjetland, E., Alcalay, A., Selve, P., Reinhardt, D., Chochole, M., & Reindl, T. (2025). Global assessment of offshore floating photovoltaics: Technical potential, cost-competitiveness, and deployment pathway. Energy & Environmental Science, 18(24), 10537–10562. 

Gandhi, O., Zhang, W., Kumar, D. S., Rodríguez-Gallegos, C. D., Yagli, G. M., Yang, D., Reindl, T., & Srinivasan, D. (2024). The value of solar forecasts and the cost of their errors: A review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 189, 113915. 

Gandhi, O., Rodríguez-Gallegos, C. D., Zhang, W., Reindl, T., & Srinivasan, D. (2022). Levelised cost of PV integration for distribution networks. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 169, 112922.

Gandhi, O., Kumar, D. S., Rodríguez-Gallegos, C. D., & Srinivasan, D. (2020). Review of power system impacts at high PV penetration Part I: Factors limiting PV penetration. Solar Energy, 210, 181–201.

  • 2020: Springer Thesis Award, Springer Nature
  • 2021: Valedictorian, PhD cohort, National University of Singapore
  • 2019: Leader of Tomorrow, St. Gallen Symposium, Switzerland 
  • 2020: Vanity Fair Global Goals List (SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy), Vanity Fair and One Young World 
  • 2021: Gen.T List, Tatler Asia