Kael Hanson
Chief Science Officer at VOLUNA
Waunakee, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolKael Hanson is a physicist-turned-technology executive with 11+ years of experience leading large instrumentation and operations efforts and founding navigation-focused startups. As a Full Professor and former Director of Operations for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, he pairs deep expertise in high-energy neutrino astrophysics with hands-on analog and digital electronics, DAQ systems, and embedded software development. He now runs Navigationis and serves as Chief Science Officer at VOLUNA, translating complex sensor R&D into industrial and defense applications while managing business development and project delivery. A licensed pilot and polyglot, Kael brings an experimentalist’s rigor to productization and an uncommon mix of academic leadership, startup grit, and systems-level engineering.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Physics, Ph.D. Physics at University of Michigan
English, French, Italian, Russian, Dutch
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Github Skills (5)
icecube7
digital-filter6
python6
signal-processing6
instrumentation5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
physkael/digiBase
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
navigationis/corsicast
Nov 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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