Dr. phil. is a historian and political scientist, specializing in Eastern European contemporary history, memory studies, and oral history. She is currently based at Uppsala University’s Hugo Valentin Centre. She collaborated on the document collection project, “The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by National-Socialist Germany 1933-1945.” And, as a court expert in history, she provided evidence for the controversial ghetto pension claims cases (ZRBG). As a researcher, Dr. Hansen has continued to publish widely on Holocaust history, memory, and East European transformation.