Soft Matter in Life Core Group leader, LINXS Fellow

Head of Scientific Support, ESS / adjunct Associate Professor, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Hanna is a biophysical chemist whose research is multidisciplinary and centers around elucidating cell membrane structure and function by using neutron scattering and deuteration, ranging from development of advanced biomimetics for human cell membranes built from purified cell lipid extracts to the in-situ study of membrane-protein and lipid function in cancer cell models. Hanna obtained a DPhil in Physical Chemistry from Oxford University (2004). After postdoc fellowships at Oxford, Toshiba (Japan) and ANSTO (Australia), she joined the ILL in Grenoble (France) as instrument scientist in 2009 before moving to Lund in 2011 as the first ESS instrument scientist and later as a senior life scientist in the DEMAX deuteration platform. She was appointed in 2024 as the Head of the ESS Scientific Support Division comprising support laboratories and sample environments.