1. Haas C.P., Lübbesmeyer M., Jin E.H., McDonald M.A., Koscher B.A., Guimond N., et al., “Open- Source Chromatographic Data Analysis for Reaction Optimization and Screening,” ChemRxiv. Submitted to ACS Cent. Sci. (2022) (link)

2. McDonald M.A., Sharma A., Rose H.B., Chernoff Y.O., Behrens S.H., Bommarius A. S., “Modeling Amyloid Aggregation Kinetics: A Case Study with Sup35NM,” J. Phys. Chem. B 2021, 125, 19, 4955–4963 (link)

3. McDonald M.A., Salami H., Harris P.R., Lagerman C.E., Yang X., Bommarius A.S., Grover M.A., Rousseau R.W., “Reactive Crystallization: A Review,” React. Chem. Eng., 2021, 6, 364-400 (link)

4. Salami H., McDonald M.A., Bommarius A.S., Rousseau R.W., Grover M.A., “In Situ Imaging Combined with Deep Learning for Crystallization Process Monitoring: Application to Cephalexin Production,” Org. Process Res. Dev. 2021, 25, 7, 1670–1679 (link)

5. Salami H.; Lagerman C.E., Harris P.R., McDonald M.A., Bommarius A.S., Rousseau R.W., Grover M.A., “Model development for enzymatic reactive crystallization of β-lactam antibiotics: a reaction– diffusion-crystallization approach,” React. Chem. Eng., 2020,5, 2064-2080 (link)

6. McDonald M.A., Marshall G.D., Bommarius A.S., Grover M.A., Rousseau R.W., “Crystallization kinetics of cephalexin monohydrate in the presence of cephalexin precursors,” Cryst. Growth Des. 2019, 19, 9, 5065–5074 (link)

7. McDonald M.A., Bommarius A.S., Grover M.A., Rousseau R.W., “Direct observation of growth rate dispersion in the reactive crystallization of ampicillin,” Processes 2019, 7 (6), 390 (link)

8. McDonald M.A., Bommarius A.S., Grover M.A., Rousseau R.W., “Continuous reactive crystallization of β-lactam antibiotics catalyzed by penicillin G acylase. Part II: Case study on ampicillin and product purity,” Comput. Chem. Eng. 2019, 126, 332-341 (link)

9. McDonald M.A., Bommarius A.S., Rousseau R.W., Grover M.A., “Continuous reactive crystallization of β-lactam antibiotics catalyzed by penicillin G acylase. Part I: Model development,” Comput. Chem. Eng. 2019, 123, 331-343 (link)

10. McDonald M.A., Bromig L., Grover M.A., Rousseau R.W., Bommarius A.S., “Kinetic model discrimination of Penicillin G Acylase thermal deactivation by non-isothermal continuous activity assay,” Chem. Eng. Sci. 2018, 187, 79–86 (link)

11. McDonald M.A., Bommarius A.S., Rousseau R.W., “Enzymatic reactive crystallization for improving ampicillin synthesis,” Chemical Engineering Science, 165, 81-88 (link) 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Postdoc project: Accelerating Molecular Discovery

Advised by Klavs Jensen

Georgia Institute of Technology

PhD Dissertation: Continuous Manufacturing of beta-Lactam Antibiotics by Enzymatic Reactive Crystallization

Advised by Andreas Bommarius, Martha Grover, and Ronald Rousseau

Princeton University

Undergraduate Thesis: Electrically Conductive Resorcinol-Formaldehyde Reinfornced Graphene Aerogels

Advised by Ilhan Aksay

Teaching Assistant Classes (at Georgia Tech)

• Kinetics and Reactor Design, 2019
• Process Control Laboratory, 2018
• Unit Operations Laboratory, 2017

• Supriya Lall, 2022 (MIT)
• Rabab Alrufayi, 2021-2022 (MIT)
• Grant Marshall, 2018-2020 (Georgia Tech, now Emory Law)
• Long Nguyen, 2017-2018 (Georgia Tech)
• Jonathan Bentata Benezry (Georgia Tech, now at Gravyty)
• Tunde Hambulo (Georgia Tech, now at BP)

Professional Service

• Gordon Research Seminar Chair, 2020, 2022, Biocatalysis
• AIChE Annual Meeting Session Chair, 2022, 676-PAT and Crystallization
• MIT Science Policy Review Contributor, 2022-present, topics including Automation in Manufacturing
• Klavs Jensen Group Safety Manager, 2021-present

• Biocatalysis Gordon Research Conference poster award, 2022

• Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best PhD Thesis Award, 2021

• Schmidt Science Fellows Georgia Tech Finalist, 2020

• AIChE Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award in Crystallization and Evaporation, 2020

• Crystal Growth and Assembly Gordon Research Conference poster award, 2019

• Georgia Tech Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Symposium presentation award, 2019

• Chih Foundation Graduate Student Research Publication Award, 2018

• Air Products Best Undergraduate Thesis Award, Princeton University, 2015