Erica McAlister

Erica McAlister
Nationality British
Occupation Scientist and museum curator

Erica McAlister is a British scientist and museum curator. She is an expert in insects and is Senior Curator of Diptera, in the Department of Entomology, at the Natural History Museum in London.[1] She was educated at the University of Manchester and at the University of Surrey, Roehampton (now the University of Roehampton) where she completed a doctorate called "Invertebrate Colonisation and Succession on a Grazing Marsh, The Wetland Centre, London".

She has appeared on various BBC Radio 4 programmes including the natural history programme The Living World, Who's the Pest?[2] and the comedy show The Museum of Curiosity where her contributions have been notable both for her enthusiasm for her subject and for her sense of humour.[3] She appeared on the BBC Radio 4 series Natural History Heroes in 2015 talking about entomologist George Verrall,[4] and on the Science Friday radio show in December 2017.[5] She has also appeared on the TV programmes University Challenge and the Museum of Life.[6]

Books

  • The Secret Life of Flies, The Natural History Museum (2017, ISBN 978-0565093365)

References

  1. ↑ "MOD staff are recruited to collect insects in Wiltshire". BBC News. BBC. 31 May 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  2. ↑ "Who's the Pest?". BBC Radio 4. BBC. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  3. ↑ "Othello, Richard Holmes, Insects, The Middle Classes". Night Waves. BBC. 23 April 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  4. ↑ "George Verrall, Natural History Heroes - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  5. ↑ "December 29, 2017 - Science Friday". Science Friday. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  6. ↑ "Erica McAlister". IMDb. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
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