Hannah Cohoon

Hannah Cohoon is a User Experience Researcher in the UDS group at LBNL, having joined the lab in 2024.

Hannah is interested in facilitating high quality research through high quality tools. Hannah received her PhD in Information Science from the University of Texas at Austin, advised by James Howison. With Dr. Howison, Hannah studied open source software development and sustainability efforts. Her other doctoral research, inspired by her earlier employment at the Center for Open Science, focused on open science infrastructure development, use, and non-use. As a postdoc at the University of Utah, Hannah worked with the Flux Research Group and Dr. Jason Wiese, doing user research for the Flux group's cloud computing testbed, CloudLab. Hannah received her BA in Cognitive Science from the University of Virginia.