Science Friday
Agricultural waste, reimagined as water filters.
With Ira Flatow: turning corn stover and orange peels into activated carbon.
Listen to the interview · 7:18 ↗06 / SPEAKING & SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
Mission Unstoppable
Capturing carbon. Expanding possibilities.
Carbon capture research and Leslie’s STEM career, shared with a national audience.
View the episode announcement ↗Selected invited talks
Invite Leslie to speak ↗Exsolved Multifunctional Materials for Dynamic CO₂ Capture and Conversion
MATSUS Fall 2026 · Invited speaker · Palma, Spain
Synergies and Tradeoffs in Biowaste Valorization from Biomass to Carbon for a Circular Carbon Economy
CNRS-Africa Initiative Conference on Biowaste Transformation · Plenary lecture · La Rochelle, France
Towards Self-Regenerative Sorption-Enhanced Catalysts for Integrated CO₂ Capture and Dry Reforming
Columbia University · Earth and Environmental Engineering
Creating Value from Carbon Dioxide: The Development of Sorption-Enhanced Catalysts to Promote a Circular Economy
University of California, Santa Barbara · Department of Materials
Solving Community and Global Challenges through Chemistry and Engineering
Riverside County Ethnic Studies Summit
Engineering Circular Solutions to Derive Value out of Waste: Perspectives from the Sustainable Lab
National Academies · Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology
CONVERSATIONS WE CAN EXPLORE
Circular economy
Rethinking how resources move through industrial and environmental systems.
Carbon management
Connecting carbon’s chemistry with its uses and environmental consequences.
Waste across phases and scales
Considering solids, liquids, and gases, from nano and micro scales to large systems.