Hansa graduated in 2020 with a BSc in Biological Sciences with a Year in Industry/Research from Imperial College London, with a year at Institute of Cancer Research. Her dissertation optimised the purification of bacterial amyloid proteins for future crystallography and used homology modelling shed novel insight into the putative structure and mechanism of the Fap system.
 
Hansa then entered the DPhil Chemical Biology programme at Oxford in 2020 and joined the Bayley lab to engineer dual chemical and voltage control over transmembrane signalling with a luminescent output.