Booking Overview
Metrics
Episodes: 123
Frequency: Irregular
Rating: 4.9/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1,000 - 10,000
Listener location: USA
Instagram: 3.7k followers
Contact Information
Publicly listed emails
materialism.podcast@gmail.com
Looking for the right person? Join Podseeker to find direct host and producer contacts and manage your podcast outreach.
Host
Taylor Sparks - Materials scientist and co-host focused on the history, technology, commercialization, processing, and characterization of advanced materials.
Andrew Falkowski - Co-host covering materials science and engineering developments, applications, and emerging technologies.
Booking Intelligence
Booking Requirements
Recent Guest Discussions
Nate Olson - Thermal Protection Systems, Atmospheric Reentry, Spacecraft Heat Shields, Apollo's Avcoat System, And Future Reentry Technology.
Joseph Krause - Self-driving Materials Laboratories, Ai-assisted Experimentation, Scientific Data Access, Bayesian Optimization, And Materials Manufacturing.
Qichao Hu - Ai-enabled Battery Discovery, Lithium-metal Batteries, Molecular Simulation, Liquid Electrolytes, And Battery Design Platforms.
Kate Winning - Textile Materials, Deployable Space Structures, Spacesuits, Specialty Fibers, Manufacturing, And Textile Applications.
Kate Winning - Textile Fundamentals, Fibers, Textile Processing, Spacesuits, Parachutes, And Protective Materials.
Recent Topics
Episodes
Episode 121: Aluminum
September 28, 2026
Aluminum may seem like a common metal today, but did you know it was once considered on par with silver? Taylor and Andrew sit down with Marat Latypov, a professor at the University of Arizona, to explore how aluminum went from a precious metal to one of the go-to metals of modern society. We talk about the discovery that collapsed the price from dollars to cents per pound and the patent dispute it caused. We explore how a metal so hungry for oxygen resists corrosion so well and how precipita...
Episode 120: Thermal Protection Systems
August 07, 2026
We have all seen the heat of atmospheric reentry depicted a thousand times in movies and TV shows, but how do we actually protect spacecraft from that danger? Taylor and Andrew sit down with Nate Olson, an aerospace engineer at NASA's Johnson Space Center, to explore the history of thermal protection systems. Nate unpacks the science of surviving atmospheric entry from the simple blunt-body design that made reentry physically possible, to the ~300,000 honeycomb cells hand-caulked with Avcoat ...
Episode 119: Closing the Discovery Loop with Radical AI
June 30, 2026
What if a materials lab on Earth could screen a hundred alloys a day with little input from the scientist? Taylor and Andrew sit down with Joseph Krause, CEO and co-founder of Radical AI, to dig into what it takes to build a self-driving lab and why most of the field is still missing the hard part. From discovering that flagship SEM and XRD instruments ship with no real data access (and rebuilding their entire OS around the workaround), to MATRIX — their multimodal vision-language model that ...
Publicly listed emails
materialism.podcast@gmail.com
Looking for the right person? Join Podseeker to find direct host and producer contacts and manage your podcast outreach.
Try us risk free with a FREE 3 days trial.
Join hundreds of PR teams using Podseeker to pitch and land bookings
