Elena Baranova is a Full Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Ottawa. She received her PhD from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). She was an NSERC post-doctoral fellow with the National Research Council (NRC), Canada before joining uOttawa in 2008 as a tenue-track Assistant Professor.

Her field of research is Electrochemical Engineering and Catalysis. Dr. Baranova has authored over 130 publications, three book chapters and one US patent. She is an Executive Editor of the Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology (JCTB, Wiley) and a Co-Director of Nexus for Quantum Technologies (NexQT) Institute at uOttawa.