Erick Carreira

Erick M. Carreira, born in Havana, Cuba in 1963, has been a full Professor at ETH Zurich's Organic Chemistry Laboratory since 1998. He earned his B.S. from the University of Illinois and Ph.D. from Harvard. After postdoctoral work at Caltech, he became an assistant professor there, later promoted to full professor. Carreira is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and has received numerous awards for his contributions to chemistry. His research focuses on asymmetric synthesis of complex natural products, utilizing innovative methods in organometallic and coordination chemistry, and collaborating in medicinal chemistry and chemical biology.