Erica W. Carlson is an American physicist specializing in superconductors, liquid crystals, and strongly correlated materials.
She went to the University of California, Los Angeles for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1995 and completing her Ph.D. in 2000.
[1][5] After postdoctoral research at Boston University, she joined the Purdue faculty in 2003.
Carlson was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2015, after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for theoretical insights into the critical role of electron nematicity, disorder, and noise in novel phases of strongly correlated electron systems and predicting unique characteristics".
[7] Carlson is Christian, and has spoken publicly about combining her religious faith with science.