Leo Brody is a Gordon and Betty Moore Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from North Carolina State University in 2021 and 2024, respectively, where his doctoral research under the direction of Professor Fanxing Li focused on perovskite-structured oxides as multifunctional redox catalysts for a number of chemical looping applications. Leo currently conducts research in the laboratory of Professor Julie Rorrer, where his work focuses on waste plastic upcycling and self-optimizing flow reactor systems. He is particularly interested in leveraging machine-learning approaches with autonomous flow reactor platforms to explore complex reaction parameter spaces where system noise, transport-induced gradients, and catalyst deactivation pose serious challenges for conventional optimization approaches.
Leo Brody
