Hannah completed an MPhys in Physics with Planetary and Space Physics from the University of Wales: Aberystwyth, with her masters obtained during onsite research at the University Center in Svalbard (UNIS) in the high arctic studying space plasma (solar wind, CMEs, and the aurora) and the upper polar atmosphere. Hannah obtained her PhD in Physics from the University of Exeter, UK in 2015, titled: “Cloudy with a chance of Water: Observational analysis of giant exoplanet atmospheres”

Following her PhD, Hannah was a NASA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center from 2015-2017. She then returned to the University of Exeter as a Research Fellow for 4 months, prior to starting as the 2017 Giacconi Fellow at STScI in Baltimore, USA.