Thomas A. Erickson is an Associate Director for Research at the EERC, where he oversees the activities leading to the development of future advanced power and fuel systems and the environmental control technologies necessary for those systems to operate within future state and federal guidelines as well as technologies and methodologies necessary to provide efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly power and fuels from existing utilities.

Mr. Erickson's principal areas of interest and expertise include the development of environmental technologies, gasification and combustion processes, trace element transformations, process and product modeling, statistical design and evaluation, systems engineering, and scanning electron microscopy for coal and combustion product analysis.

Mr. Erickson received his B.S and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from UND. He has authored and coauthored numerous publications.