Elisabeth Moreau is a FWA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge (UK).

She started her postdoctoral research in 2019 as a BAEF Hoover Research Fellow at Princeton University, and obtained a FNRS Research Fellowship at the Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). The project is focused on pre-conceptions of metabolism in early modern medicine, in particular, the body’s assimilation of food and drugs from the perspective of matter theories.

Trained in History and Philosophy of Science, she works on medicine, alchemy, and natural philosophy in late Renaissance Europe. She completed her PhD in 2018 at the Université libre de Bruxelles under joint supervision of Radboud Universiteit (The Netherlands). Her doctoral dissertation is centered on the emergence of atomistic and corpuscular theories in Galenic medicine in the late sixteenth– and early seventeenth–centuries.

During her doctoral studies, she held fellowships at Science History Institute (Philadelphia) and FNRS (Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research), and was a visiting researcher at UPenn and the University of Cambridge.

For her training in Digital Humanities at KU Leuven (Belgium), she has specialized in the preservation, dissemination and curation of digital cultural heritage in the GLAM sector.