Frank, Hannah K.
Assistant Professor
School or College
School of Science and Engineering
Education & Affiliations
Ph.D.
Areas of Expertise
Ecology
evolution
bats
zoonotic disease
comparative adaptive immunity
Biography
Hannah Frank earned her PhD in biology (ecology and evolution) at Stanford University in 2017 before conducting postdoctoral work as a Life Sciences Research Foundation fellow in the Pathology department in the Stanford School of Medicine. Her research focuses on understanding the relationship between animals, particularly bats, and infections in an ecological and evolutionary context using a combination of fieldwork and genomic techniques.