Erica Klarreich

Erica Gail Klarreich is an American mathematician, journalist and science popularizer.

Erica Klarreich
Alma mater	Stony Brook University
Occupation	Journalist
Employer	Quanta Magazine
Website	https://ericaklarreich.pressfolios.com/

Early life and education

Klarreich's father was a professor of mathematics, and her mother was a mathematics teacher.^[1]

Klarreich obtained her Ph.D. in mathematics under the guidance of Yair Nathan Minsky at Stony Brook University in 1997.^[2]

Mathematics

As a mathematician, Klarreich proved that the boundary of the curve complex is homeomorphic to the space of ending laminations.^[3]

Popular science writing

As a popular science writer, Klarreich's work has appeared in publications such as Nature, Scientific American, New Scientist, and Quanta Magazine.^[4][5] She is one of the winners of the 2021 Joint Policy Board for Mathematics Communications Award for her popular science writing.^[6]

Personal life

As of 2025, Klarreich lives in Berkeley, California.^[7]

Selected publications

Mathematics

• "The boundary at infinity of the curve complex and the relative Teichmüller space"
• "Semiconjugacies between Kleinian group actions on the Riemann sphere"

Popular science

• "Biologists join the dots", Nature, v. 413, n. 6855, pp. 450–452, 2001.
• "Foams and honeycombs", American Scientist, v. 88, n. 2, pp. 152–161, 2000.
• "Quantum cryptography: Can you keep a secret?", Nature, v. 418, n. 6895, pp. 270–272, 2002.
• "Huygens's clocks revisited", American Scientist, v. 90, pp. 322–323, 2002.