Erin Macdonald is a tattooed astrophysicist who brings a STEM career panel's worth of experience (including years spent in Glasgow, Scotland on her PhD) to the page. Working as the science consultant for the Star Trek franchise, she has found her voice in multi-genre character-driven storytelling while bringing levity and a passion for science to a room.
Vector Course Sci-fi ⋄ Action When our team of time-traveling bounty hunters are hired to retrieve stolen data, this group of women and a droid find themselves battling assassin squads and incompetent mob men to rescue the wayward target.
The Observatory Sci-fi ⋄ Animation Two adventurous girls from Earth find themselves recruited by a group of aliens to travel and document potentially habitable planets under the radar of rival species.
Amalgam One Sci-fi ⋄ Drama While attempting to free his son, a high-ranking staff member accidentally wakes up five people who discover they’re trapped by an ostracized tech genius obsessed with advancing humanity among the stars.
To Skye Historical ⋄ Independent Based on a true story: A young woman in the 18th Century Scottish Isles finds herself harboring and aiding the escape of the exiled Prince of Scotland.
University of Glasgow
(2009-2012)
University of Colorado Boulder
(2005-2009)