Licia Verde (born 1971, Venice, Italy) is an Italian cosmologist and theoretical physicist and currently ICREA Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Barcelona and a Professor II at the University of Oslo. Her research interests include large-scale-structure, dark energy, inflation and the cosmic microwave background. She is a highly cited and prolific author and known primarily for work on large-scale structure, analysis of the WMAP data and development of rigurous statistical tools to analyse surveys of the Universe.