Prof. Erland M. Schulson received his B.A.Sc. (Honours, 1964) and his PhD (1968) in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of British Columbia. He has been a visiting senior research fellow at Oxford University (1968-69), a research officer in materials science at Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories (1969-78), a visiting research fellow at the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center (1988), a visiting professor at the University of Grenoble (1989), and a Fulbright Foreign Scholar at CNRS's Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geophysique de l'Environnement (1999). He also received the Fullbright Arctic Chair award in 2013 with the aim of conducting research and tutoring students in the research centre of SAMCoT, NTNU, Norway.

In 1978 he joined the faculty of the Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, and is currently serving as Chair, Engineering Sciences. Prof. Schulson is the (first) George Austin Colligan Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth. He was elected Fellow of ASM International and of TMS, and is a member of the American Geophysical Union and the International Glaciological Society. Schulson founded the Ice Research Laboratory at Dartmouth in 1983, and since then has served as its director. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in materials science, mechanical behaviour of solids and phase transformations, and continues to pursue research on the relationship between the structure and mechanical behaviour of metals and ice.