People

Biography

Hannah Rana is a Schmidt Science Fellow at Harvard University and Research Associate at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Black Hole Initiative. She is the incoming first ever BHEX Postdoctoral Fellow. As a member of the Event Horizon Telescope and the BHEX space mission, her work focuses on black hole detection, where she works at the intersection and instrumentation for ground and space VLBI. Hannah uses GRMHD simulations to study features of the black hole photon ring to be revolved by the BHEX mission. She completed her PhD at the University of Oxford in astrophysics instrumentation, and has previously held appointments at Caltech, NASA, ESA, CERN and as a founding member of Neutron Star Systems, an electric propulsion space startup. Hanna has worked on 5 space-based astronomy missions to date.