Hans currently serves on the 2017 Natural Hazards Workshop Planning Committee. At the University of Nebraska, he researches and teaches courses concentrated on disasters and social vulnerability, human security, and environmental justice. Louis-Charles is a former graduate research assistant at the Disaster Research Center where he worked on federally funded projects investigating household and community level resilience in New York City following Super Storm Sandy. Additionally, Louis-Charles has more than a decade of experience working as an educator and program coordinator for under-represented and at-risk youth programs at the high school, undergraduate and graduate education level.