Elena Becker-Barroso is a Spanish molecular biologist and the editor in chief of Lancet Neurology.
Becker-Barroso obtained a bachelor's degree in life sciences from the University of Exeter in 1997 and has a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Salamanca.
She undertook postdoctoral research at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine at New York University, and has a diploma in science communication from Birkbeck University.
Becker-Barroso joined the editorial department of The Lancet Neurology in 2005 before becoming the journal's editor-in-chief in 2012.
Becker-Barroso has an honorary degree from the University of Exeter.