Mathieu Corteel completed his M.Phil and Ph.D in Philosophy at the Sorbonne University. His thesis was on the History of the Numerical Method in Medicine.

He is currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the CrisisLab at Sciences Po Paris and Visiting Associate in the department of the History of Science at Harvard. At Sciences Po, he is currently working on a method to improve the anticipation and management of crisis from the perspective of social science, sociology of organizations and ethics.

He recently completed an Arthur Sachs Fellowship that allowed him to conduct historical research on the numerical method in medicine at Harvard. Since then, he has continued to examine the extensive archival collections (Countway Library) of American physicians who traveled to Paris in the early 19th century to learn the numerical method from Pierre Louis.

Dr. Corteel recently taught courses in the history of medicine, medical science, health policy, and medical ethics at Harvard College:

• Gened 1116 "Medical Ethics and History" (Pr. David S. Jones)
• Gened 1175 "Vaccines: History, Science and Policy" (Pr. Allan M. Brandt, Pr. Galit Alter and Pr. Ingrid Katz)

During the Covid-19 crisis, he conducted research on the use of epidemiological models for health policy at the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP) and the Center for the Sociology of Organizations (CSO) at Sciences Po Paris.

In 2020, he has published his first book based on his doctoral thesis, Le Hasard et le Pathologique. The book traces the history of statistics and probability in medicine from the seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth century.

Areas of Research: History of Medicine, Philosophy of Science, Science and Technology Studies, Medical Ethics, Crisis management and Medical Sociology.