Hannah S. Shafaat is a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of California, Los Angeles. She earned her B.S. in Chemistry from Caltech, her Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of California, San Diego, and performed postdoctoral research as a Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion. Hannah began her independent research career at The Ohio State University in 2013. She moved to UCLA in 2023. Hannah is a bioinorganic chemist whose research is focused on small molecule activation in metalloenzymes. She is particularly interested in understanding how the entire protein system contributes to catalyzing complex chemical transformations through the study of structure-function relationships in native metalloenzymes and metalloprotein models.