Dr. Valentine Delrue

Valentine Delrue currently holds a BOF postdoctoral fellowship for her project Floral clocks and vegetable barometers. Public meteorological knowledge in Belgium (1795-1876). Previously, she conducted a one-year postdoc as a BAEF fellow at Yale University on the diversity and hierarchy of weather prediction tools on the US East Coast (1770-1870). In July 2024, she finished her PhD with a FWO-funded project which investigated how atmospheric tides meteorology appropriated and transformed other forms of weather knowledge for its own purposes in Enlightenment France and Italy. She holds a BA in History from Ghent University (2018) and obtained her MSc in History and Philosophy at Utrecht University (2019) with a thesis on environmental medicine in eighteenth-century Batavia.