Eric Mark Friedlander (born January 7, 1944) is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at University of Southern California.

[1] He graduated from Swarthmore College with bachelor's degree in 1965 and in 1970 received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Michael Artin, (Fibrations in Étale Homotopy Theory).

[2] He was a postdoctoral instructor at Princeton University: a lecturer in 1971 and assistant professor in 1972.

From 1973 to 1974, he was, through the US exchange program, at France, in particular at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques.

In 1998, he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin (Geometry of infinitesimal group schemes).