Alvaro Pascual-Leone (born 7 August 1961 in Valencia, Spain) is a Spanish-American Professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, with which he has been affiliated since 1997.
He is currently a Senior Scientist at the Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife.
Dr. Pascual-Leone obtained his school education in Deutsche Schule Valencia between 1967 and 1979.
His father is Alvaro Pascual-Leone Pascual and his mother is Teresa Garcia Ferrer.
He has authored over 700 scientific papers [3] and has received several international honors and awards, including the Ramon y Cajal Award in Neuroscience (Spain), the Norman Geschwind Prize in Behavioral Neurology from the American Academy of Neurology, the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), and the Jean Signoret Prize from the Ipsen Foundation (France).