Erica McAlister

Erica McAlister is a British scientist and museum curator. She is an expert in insects and is Curator of Diptera, in the Department of Entomology, at the Natural History Museum in London. 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? 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.