Hansen is a glaciologist with broader interests in understanding the processes shaping Earth’s surface in the cryosphere. His interdisciplinary research combines novel experimentation, field geophysics, sedimentology, and numerical models to constrain the mechanisms controlling glacier motion and geomorphic change in high-latitude environments.

Hansen received a B.S. in Geology and Mathematics from Portland State University in 2017. He completed a Ph.D. in Geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2022, under the supervision of Lucas Zoet, and subsequently worked as a postdoc in the