Valentine Delrue (°1997) is currently working on an FWO-funded project which investigates how atmospheric tides meteorology appropriated and transformed other forms of weather knowledge for its own purposes in Enlightenment France and Italy. She obtained her BA in History from Ghent University in 2018 and completed her MSc in History and Philosophy at Utrecht University where she graduated in 2019 with a thesis on environmental medicine in eighteenth-century Batavia.