She earned her PhD in math from Wesleyan, and since earning her PhD she has worked as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Haensch also collaborated on the L-functions and Modular Forms Database, a database that shows connections among L-functions and that will be important to cryptography and cyber security. Dr. Haensch is particularly interested in communicating with the public about math and in 2013 worked at National Public Radio's Science Desk as an AAAS-AMS Mass Media Fellow. Her most recent grants include an American Institute of Mathematics SQuaRE grant and Brown University's Collaborate@ICERM. Visit her website here.