Dr Eleanor Chan is a historian of Renaissance art, music and visual culture.

She writes about episodes from the margins of art history, and is a BBC New Generation Thinker. She is the author of Mathematics and the Craft of Thought in the Anglo-Dutch Renaissance (2021), and Syrene Soundes: False Relations in the English Renaissance (2024). She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, and has held research fellowships at the Society for Renaissance Studies, the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art, the University of Manchester and the Warburg Institute at the University of London.

She is also a published children's author, and practising painter.