Eric Poisson

Eric Poisson (born July 26, 1965) is a Canadian physicist studying black holes. He is a professor at the University of Guelph and a member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Education He was born in Montreal, Quebec, and grew up in Rimouski and Quebec City. He obtained his bachelor's degree from Laval University in Quebec City, and his Ph.D. at the University of Alberta, in 1991 under the supervision of Werner Israel.

Research Poisson's doctoral dissertation was on the concept of mass inflation (not to be confused with cosmological inflation), which he pioneered with Israel. (2005) Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, for important contributions to the theory of gravitational radiation from compact bodies orbiting black holes, to the theory of back-reaction of the emitted radiation on their motions, and to understanding the implications for gravitational-wave detection. (2008)

Books A Relativist's Toolkit, The Mathematics of Black-Hole Mechanics, Cambridge University Press (June 7, 2004). . Gravity: Newtonian, Post-Newtonian, Relativistic (with Clifford M. Will), Cambridge University Press (May 31, 2014). .