Background

Education

• Purdue University, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (2022 – Present)
• Michigan State University, B.S. Chemical Engineering and Chemistry (2022)

Experience

• Lira Research Group, Michigan State University: Undergraduate Research Assistant (2018 — 2022)
• WestRock: Power Department Process Engineer Co-op (2021)

Project Description

Controlling acid site distributions within zeolite catalysts.

Recent Publications

• Killian, William G.‡; Bala, Aseel M.‡; Norfleet, Andrew T.; Peereboom, Lars; Jackson, James E.; Lira, Carl T. Infrared Quantification of Ethanol and 1-Butanol Hydrogen Bonded Hydroxyl Distributions in Cyclohexane. Spectrochemica Acta Part A 2023, 285, 121837
• Killian, William G.‡; Norfleet, Andrew T.‡; Lira, Carl T. Densities of Selected Deuterated Solvents. J. Chem. Eng. Data 2022, 67, 893-901.
• Bala, Aseel M.‡; Killian, William G.‡; Plascencia, Cesar; Storer, Jackson A.; Norfleet, Andrew T.; Peereboom, Lars; Jackson, James E.; Lira, Carl T. Quantitative Analysis of Infrared Spectra of Binary Alcohol + Cyclohexane Solutions with Quantum Chemical Calculations. J. Phys. Chem. A 2020, 124, 3077-3089.