Julie F. Barcelona (born January 1, 1972) [1] is a Filipina botanist and taxonomist working as Research Associate at University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand).
Barcelona worked on Co's Digital Flora of the Philippines,[3] a website dedicated to the great Philippine botanist Leonard Co.[4] Barcelona is married to Pieter B. Pelser, with which she wrote most of her work.
The pitcher plant species Nepenthes barcelonae was named after her.
In 1994, Barcelona went on to receive her master's degree in biological science at the University of Santo Tomas in Espana, Manila.
Barcelona completed her academic studies with a Ph.D. in botany at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in 2000.