Elizabeth Jane Robertson CBE FRS MAE is a British developmental biologist based at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford.

[1] She is Professor of Developmental Biology[2] at Oxford and a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow.

[6][7][8] Robertson earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Oxford.

[13][14] Robertson's work was among the first to show that the disruption of many genes has surprisingly little effect on development and organismal phenotype,[15][16][17] contributing to a long-running challenge in the understanding of the robustness of biological systems.

[24] Robertson was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to medical sciences.