Hanna made her way to the Chemistry Department at the University of Utah after finishing her Bachelors of Science in Biochemistry at Gonzaga University. Although she misses the Pacific Northwest, she has fallen in love with the Wasatch range and looks forward to exploring it further on her skis, bike, and with her climbing rope. While she’s not adventuring, Hanna works in Dr. Matt Sigman’s research group where she is developing predictive and mechanistically insightful models of biocatalyst specificity. Hanna is deeply interested in and inspired by the exquisite efficiency of Nature’s chemical mediators, and hopes that they can be manipulated to solve many longstanding chemical and societal obstacles.

Hanna also loves to cook, craft, read, and garden.