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