Dr Victoria Kasprowicz is a Research Fellow in Energy Demand at the University of Birmingham. She has been working in the energy sector since 2013 when she helped to create a pay-as-you-go solar energy services company for low resource communities in Guatemala and Colombia. Victoria completed an ESRC-funded interdisciplinary doctorate in the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex. Her research explored how we can better understand the relationship between gender and energy access in the context of off-grid electrification programmes in Latin America. Victoria also holds a MSc in Development Management and a BSc in Psychology.