Elizabeth Hughes

Elizabeth Hughes is a researcher affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin. She holds a BA in art history and French from the University of Puget Sound and an MA in art history from the Freie Universität Berlin. At MPIWG, she provides editorial support and publication management to the Research Group 'Practices of Validation in the Biomedical Sciences' and co-leads the interdisciplinary Working Group 'Biomedical Visions: Aesthetics, Epistemology, and Medical Practice', which explores how imagery shapes medical and public perceptions of health and illness.

Her work bridges art history, biomedical sciences, and visual culture, emphasizing the intersection of aesthetics and epistemology in medical contexts. She has contributed to projects like 'Biomedical Visions' and 'Commoning Biomedicine: Networking Decentralized Collections of Oral Histories', and participated in academic events such as the Berlin Science Week panel discussion on 'Patterns of Pathology' and the 'Practices of Validation' authors' workshop.