Anna Hancock (A-nuh Han-cock | she/her/hers) is a PhD student in Chemical and Biological Engineering. 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 current research focuses on bacterial communities in porous media. After graduating from the lab, 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.