Leo Brody received his B.S. in Environmental Science from American University in 2016, and both his M.S. in Chemical Engineering (2021) and PhD in Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University under the supervision of Prof. Fanxing Li. At NC State, his dissertation focused on improving how we capture CO₂ during chemical reactions to make hydrogen fuel from syngas feedstocks. Normally, special solid materials called sorbents are used to grab CO₂ and help produce more hydrogen. The problem is that most sorbents stop working over time due to sintering or particle aggregation. For his PhD, Brody tested tunable perovskite oxides, a family of materials having the structural formula ABO3-ẟ (where A represents an alkali or alkaline earth metal cation, B represents a transition metal cation, and δ represents oxygen vacancies) which can switch between different structures during use. This switching helps the perovskite oxide particles avoid aggregation and makes them last longer. Brody’s dissertation work has been published in Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, and Journal of Physics: Energy. He has authored eleven research articles and has one filed patent application. Leo is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington working under Dr. Julie Rorrer focusing on smart reactors to improve processing of liquids derived from variable mixed waste plastics.