Eric Schulman is an American astronomer and science humorist.
Schulman received his bachelor's degree from UCLA and his PhD from the University of Michigan.
He sometimes uses the pen name E. Robert Schulman when writing science humor articles.
Schulman was the first "Armchair Astrophysics" columnist for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Mercury Magazine (he was succeeded by Christopher Wanjek in 2001).
Schulman is married to Caroline Virginia Cox (an astronomer in her own right) and they are the parents of one daughter, Emily.