Anna Hancock (A-nuh Han-cock | she/her/hers) received her PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University working in our lab, and is now continuing as a postdoctoral researcher co-advised with Prof. Mohamed Donia. She did her undergraduate work in Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis where she studied the intrinsically disordered bacterial division protein, FtsZ, in Rohit Pappu’s lab. Her research focuses on chemical interactions in spatially structured bacterial communities. After her postdoc, Anna will move to a faculty position at Wheaton College.

Outside of lab, Anna enjoys spending as much time as possible outside in the sun whether running, walking, biking, or just skipping around. She will never say no to a warm baked good and devoted many hours of quarantine to recipe testing the perfect chocolate chip cookie with her husband.