Shivangi N. Borate
Co-first author
Harris Laboratory · Chemical and Biological Engineering, The University of Alabama
Shivangi N. Borate defended her Ph.D. in the Harris Laboratory in June 2026, working on heterogeneous catalysis, zeolites and renewable energy — including carbon–carbon coupling over rare-earth-containing zeolites and ethanol conversion, in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She received the ACS CATL–ChemCatBio Graduate Student Travel Award, a Top Oral Presentation award at the Southeastern Catalysis Society meeting, and the department’s Outstanding Research by a Doctoral Student award.
We share first authorship on the study of how co-feeding acetone increases C5+ olefin formation during ethanol upgrading. Sharing a first-author line with someone means trusting them with your half of the work, and she made that easy. I am grateful for her rigour and her generosity as a colleague.
Papers we co-authored
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If your research touches the same questions, I would like to hear about it — whether that is a joint paper, a shared sample set, or a conversation about where the work is going.