Vera von Falkenhausen (born 1938) is a German Byzantinist who lives and works in Italy.

Vera von Falkenhausen pursued Byzantine studies at the University of Munich, where she made her thesis in 1966 under Hans-Georg Beck.

She then spent the years 1968–1970 at the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies in Washington, D.C., on a scholarship.

[1] Since 1974 she has been active as a professor of Byzantine history and literature at the universities of Pisa, Basilicata (Potenza), Chieti, and finally at Rome Tor Vergata.

In addition, she is a member of the scientific advisory council of the journal Nea Rhome, founded in 2004.