Hannah Sayre is a photochemist researching light-activated chemistry for solar energy applications. She earned a PhD from The Ohio State University while developing red light-activated catalysis with Claudia Turro. She was a postdoctoral scholar at Princeton University with Gregory Scholes and was the lead distinguished postdoctoral researcher for Bio-Inspired Light-Escalated Chemistry (BioLEC), an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. She enjoys baking, gardening, and hiking