Hanan completed her PhD at the University of Guelph, Canada in 2016 where she studied host - microbe interactions. She completed her first postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Guelph, and was later awarded the highly competitive NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) fellowship in 2018. Hana is currently developing DNA based methods for probiotic strain identification and enumeration to support quality assurance measures in the probiotic industry and to ensure regulatory compliance and is also a member of the IPA technical committee.