Eric Poisson (born July 26, 1965) is a Canadian award-winning physicist specializing in the study of black holes.
Poisson is a professor at the University of Guelph as well as an affiliate member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
[1] Prior to the understanding of mass inflation, it was believed that wormholes into other universes would be found inside some black holes.
After completing his doctorate, Poisson spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow in Kip Thorne's research group at the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena.
This work continued for a subsequent year spent with Clifford Will at Washington University in St. Louis.