Erick M. Carreira (born 1963) is a Cuban-born American organic chemist and professor at ETH Zürich.

[1] Carreira has coauthored and coedited several major reference works in the total synthesis field,[5][6] including volume 93 of Organic Syntheses.

[7] In 2019, Carreira was appointed as the editor-in-chief of Organic Letters published by the American Chemical Society, where he had previously served as an associate editor for 18 years.

[10] The appointment reignited debate over a 1996 letter in which Carreira highlighted his expectations for long working hours in his research group, which were viewed as inappropriately demanding and demeaning by other professors.

The terms of Carreira's request included restriction of all vacation time during the thesis writing process and held the student accountable for financial liabilities such as "rental agreements [and] airline change fees" incurred should Carreira decide that he needed to change the date of the defense .