Dougal Hansen  recently joined the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences as an assistant professor and has just accepted our offer to become a fellow in the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences. He 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 PhD in Geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2022, under the supervision of Lucas Zoet, and subsequently worked as a postdoc in the same lab.