Leslie J. Struble holds a B.A. in chemistry (Pitzer College, 1970), an M.S. in civil engineering (Purdue University, 1979), and a Ph.D. in civil engineering (Purdue University, 1987). She has been a member of the faculty in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana since 1989. Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Illinois, she worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Martin Marietta Laboratories, and California Portland Cement Company.

Dr. Struble has taught undergraduate courses on the behavior of construction materials and on concrete science and technology, and graduate courses on the composition and microstructure of cement, the durability of building materials, and laboratory methods for characterizing construction materials.

Dr. Struble is active in several professional societies. She is a member of the American Ceramic Society, where she has served as Editor of Cements Research Progress and Trustee of the Cements Division. She is a member of the American Society for Testing and Materials, where she serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of ASTM International and is an honorary member of ASTM Committees C01 and C09, where she chairs several subcommittees and task groups. She is a member of the American Concrete Institute. She is a member of the American Association of University Professors and serves on their UIUC policy advisory committee.

Dr. Struble is Director of the Center for Cement Composite Materials at UIUC. She is affiliated with the Center for Advanced Cement Based Materials and was Associate Director of the Center from 2000-2003. Dr. Struble was awarded a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1992 to support research on rheology of cement paste and concrete. She is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, the American Society for Testing and Materials, and the American Concrete Institute.

She has edited several books and proceedings and has authored or co-authored more than 110 publications dealing with various aspects of cement and concrete.