If you want to use the same thesis template or want to build on top of it, please check out my fork of the WUSTL dissertation and thesis template at https://github.com/ccwang002/wustl-latex-dissertation-template. It also comes with an example using the template.

Use LuaLaTex on Tex Live 2020 and later. For the BasicTeX distribution on macOS, install the additional packages below:

sudo tlmgr install \ latexmk \ biber biblatex biblatex-nature \ lualatex-math stix2-otf \ csquotes threeparttable multirow \ enumitem siunitx 

Build the document by:

latexmk -lualatex thesis.tex 

Clean up intermediate files by:

latexmk -c latexmk -C # also remove the built PDF