Majed Abir

Majed received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from West Virginia University in August 2026 and subsequently joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Virginia Tech as a Postdoctoral Associate. As part of his postdoctoral research, he is currently at SLAC as a visiting scholar, working with Dr. Simon Bare and the Co-ACCESS team. His research involves developing catalytic membrane systems for oxidative methane dehydroaromatization over zeolite-supported molybdenum catalysts and using in situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy to characterize catalyst structures and monitor their evolution under reaction conditions.