Have you ever wished for a concrete answer to addressing climate change? All puns aside, Gabriel Falzone’s TEDx talk addresses that topic literally. As a member of the Laboratory for the Chemistry of Construction Materials (LC2) at UCLA, Gabriel Falzone works to extend the service life of concrete, improve its thermal performance, and develop new concrete materials that absorb carbon dioxide. His TEDx talk addresses a groundbreaking way to produce concrete that halves the carbon produced, thereby identifying an innovative way to mitigate climate change through architecture and material science.
Gabriel Falzone is a Research Scientist in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. As a member of the Laboratory for the Chemistry of Construction Materials (LC2) headed by Prof. Gaurav Sant, he has authored over 25 peer-reviewed publications. His research works to extend the service life of concrete, improve its thermal performance, and develop new concrete materials that absorb carbon dioxide. To this end, he is part of team CO2Concrete, a Finalist in the $20 million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE competition for carbon capture and utilization technologies. He teaches courses related to concrete, construction management, thermodynamics, and MATLAB programming. A Bay Area native, Gabriel relocated to Los Angeles to attend UCLA, where he earned his degrees in Materials Science & Engineering (B.S. ’14; Ph.D. ’19). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx