Eleanor Chan is currently a research fellow at the Warburg Institute, University of London. She has studied at the University of Cambridge and the Courtauld Institute of Art, has taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Doshisha, Sheffield and Manchester, and held fellowships with the Leverhulme Trust, Society for Renaissance Studies, Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art and the Renaissance Society of America. She is the author of Mathematics and the Craft of Thought (Routledge, 2021) and Syrene Sounds: False Relations in the English Renaissance (Oxford University Press, 2024). Chan is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker.