Hannah Niehaus studied physics at RWTH University and received her B.Sc and M.Sc. degrees in 2017 and 2020, respectively. During her masters programme she spent half a year in Lisbon (Portugal) and was working at the physics institute of RWTH Aachen on non-volatile memory applications based on phase change technology before she moved to the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology. There she was writing her masters thesis and working within the group of micro- and nonstructuring of transparent materials.

In September 2020 she started her PhD at the University of Bremen, Institute of Environmental Physicsn, as a part of the (AC)³ project (http://www.ac3-tr.de/). Working in the polar remote sensing group, her main research interest is the retrieval of melt ponds on arctic sea ice from satellite data to enhance the perception of the energy balance of the Arctic in summer contributing to studies in the context of global climate change and Arctic amplification.