Eva Nogales (born in Colmenar Viejo, Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish-American biophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as head of the Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology (2015–2020).

She used electron crystallography to obtain the first structure of tubulin and identify the binding site of the important anti-cancer drug taxol.

She is a leader in combining cryo-EM, computational image analysis and biochemical assays to gain insights into function and regulation of biological complexes and molecular machines.

[3] She later earned her PhD from the University of Keele in 1992 while working at the Synchrotron Radiation Source under the supervision of Joan Bordas.

[4][5][6] She became an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1998.